Join us for our Open Mic hosted by Matthew Dickman on Saturday, May 24th, from 5–7 PM.

We’re thrilled to welcome writer Lisa Wells, who will kick off the evening by reading some of her latest work—then we’ll open the floor to YOU!

Here’s how it works:

Sign-up starts at 5 PM
14 available spots
Read ONE PAGE (poem, novel, essay - whatever you’re currently working on!)
You have 5 minutes to share, and your name will be drawn randomly.
ALL ARE WELCOME!

Lisa Wells is the author of The Fire Passage, winner of the Levis Prize in Poetry, Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and her debut collection of poetry, The Fix, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her essays have been published in Harper’s Magazine, Granta, N+1, The New York Times, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and The Best American Food and Travel Writing. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a father, teacher, and freelance creative living in Portland, Oregon