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4pm. Tender Loving Empire. 10th/Ankeny. SW Portland.

from “Rouge State” by Rodney Koeneke (Pavement Saw 2002).

And I remember when I said you should listen to the new Typhoon EP, A New Kind of House?

3pm. Courier Coffee. 10th/Oak. SW Portland.

“Koan Two” by Sara Guest from Inknode. She has a bunch of good poems on there. And I told you she used to work at Write Around Portland, which is worth a looksee.

2pm. Powells Books.

“Nursing” by Carl Adamshick from Curses and Wishes (Walt Whitman Award Winner 2011).

Also, buy Kevin Sampell’s memoir, A Common Pornography, and some books from his small press, Future Tense Books. 

1pm. Jackpot Records. Burnside/9th. SW Portland.

from “The Black Album” by Matthew Dickman from All American Poem (American Poetry Review 2008).

Also, check out those albums I bought from Portland bands: Crock, The Wipers, Red Fang.

12pm. Reading Frenzy. 10th/Oak. SW Portland.

from “Snaps” by Sam Lohmann in his book “Onlooking” (Airfoil 2009). He publishes Peaches and Bats. And Kate Bingaman-Burt does Obsessive Consumption. And I do Octopus Books.

11am. ADX. 11th/Stark. SE Portland.

from “Big” by Drew Swenhaugen. Check out what he co-does: Poor Claudia. And check out what we co-do together along w/Joseph Mains: Bad Blood Reading Series.

10am. Crema. 28th/Ankeny. SE Portland.

“The Job” by Lisa Ciccarello from Handsome Vol. 4 No. 1. published by Black Ocean.

9am. Lone Fir Cemetery atop Earl Fleming’s 1905 gravestone. Ankeny/26th. SE Portland.

“Happy Ideas” by Mary Szybist. Read her book Granted (Alice James 2003). Maybe buy it at Powells.

8am. Kitchen. NE Portland.

from “Various States of Undress” by Jesse Lichtenstein from Diode.

Buy your own Manual Cinema tshirt.

7am. Porch. NE Portland.

A poem by Donald Dunbar from Eyelid Lick (forthcoming Fence Books 2012)