We’re outgrowing out venue, and our last, official reading in our present spot will be on Sunday, September 20th. Let us know if you have any leads on other groovy spaces where SotA could meet. Sotapdx@gmail.com
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
SotA team member Craig Brandis will be offering The Poetry of Place workshop October 8 - November 12, 2026 via Zoom.
Place shapes us before we have words for it. This workshop looks at how poets have written about landscape, region, and the ground they know, or have lost, with a keen eye for detail, earned veracity, and vitality.
Over six weeks we will read poets for whom place is sacred ground: Heaney on the Irish bog, Jeffers on the California coast, Forché on Central America torn by war. We will look how the physical world enters into the poem and what it carries when it does, paying particular attention to what arises in times of conflict. Writers will bring their own landscapes to the table and develop new ways of translating the signals they carry to the page.
$249.00
Thursdays, 6:30 - 8pm (Pacific Time), Oct 8 - Nov 12 | ZOOM
