Join us for Open Mic hosted by Matthew Dickman, Saturday, September from 5–7 PM.

We’re thrilled to welcome writer Wayne Scott who will kick off the evening by reading some of his 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!

Wayne Scott is the author of, The Maps They Gave Us: One Marriage Reimagined (2025, Black Lawrence Press) and his writing has appeared in The Sun, Poets and Writers, The Psychotherapy Networker, Huffington Post, and The Oregonian, among others. His New York Times essay, “Two Open Marriages in One Small Room” (January 2020) was adapted for the Modern Love podcast and read by Edoardo Ballerini (summer 2021), then “dutchified” for Modern Love (Amsterdam), the television series, in 2022. He is a writer, psychotherapist, and teacher 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