Upcoming

Readings are on the 3rd Sunday of the month at 4pm, at 3400 se 43rd Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Announcements of readers go out to the mailing list around one week prior and will appear here too.

Sunday, July 19th, 2026 at 4pm

Allie Marini is a Florida woman, cross-genre writer, visual artist, maker, and tarot reader. She runs Creepy Girl Trap PDX, where she slings cards & oddities. Find her online: @creepygirltrap.pdx, @kiddeternity, https://linktr.ee/creepygirltrap.pdx

Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, voice actor, & arts coordinator from the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & program coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, Bigfoot Poetry Festival, Redwood Poetry Festival, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. He’s the author of A Heart With No Scars, by Nomadic Press and Black Lawrence Press and Honeysuckle & Nightshade, by Swimming with Elephants Publications. Brennan facilitates creative writing and performance workshops, serving K-12 classrooms, incarcerated youth, adults, seniors, and various arts education programs. His work has been published in Red Wheelbarrow, Oracle Fine Arts Review, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Caesura, Gemini & elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.

An open mic will follow ---- and milk and cookies will greet you at the (basement) door ---- so, see you at 4 ---- 3400 SE 43rd Ave ---- and bring people with you!

Interested in joining a SotA writing group that will happen offsite, but nearby, before our readings? Contact SotA team member Courtney Edwards at courtneyedwardswriting@gmail.com

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