Please join us May 7 for an evening of poetry! I'll be reading with Elizabeth Robinson @thirst_and_surfeit and Vancouver, BC and Tucson-based Jami Macarty @jmacarty2026 , who will read from her latest award-winning collection, The Long Now Conditions Permit.
About the Event:
Thursday, May 7, Passages Bookshop, 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland.
Doors open at 7pm; 7:30 start (no late entry).
Details @ facebook.com/events/1631518671419255
Praise for Test Site Poetry Prize winner The Long Now Conditions Permit:
“Jami Macarty’s spectacular The Long Now Conditions Permit reveals a complex geography of gendered histories and unveiled violences through history and nature. Her poems are rendered in conditions where power circulates as moving, internal portraits and through Steinian-like modes of repetition where description begs the juridical, form weds content in Macarty’s deft sonic registers.”
—Ronaldo V. Wilson, Test Site Poetry Advisory Board, author of Virgil Kills: Stories and Poems of the Black Object
Please join us May 7 for an evening of poetry! I'll be reading with Jami Macarty @jmacarty2026 and Bay Area-based Elizabeth Robinson @thirst_and_surfeit , who will read from her work, including her latest collection, Vulnerability Index.
About the Event:
Thursday, May 7, Passages Bookshop, 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland.
Doors open at 7pm; 7:30 start (no late entry).
Details @ facebook.com/events/1631518671419255
Praise for Foreword INDIES Finalist Vulnerability Index:
“Elizabeth Robinson is one of America’s most vibrant experimental poets. Vulnerability Index is provocatively present in twenty-first century America, movingly lived in its observations, vulnerabilities and commitments, and profoundly intersectional in its empathies with the diverse populations who find themselves unhoused in America.” —Matthew Cooperman, author of the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless
Hi PDX friends! I’m honored to be reading with two brilliant award-winning poets, Jami Macarty of Vancouver, BC and Tucson, AZ; and Elizabeth Robinson of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Thursday, May 7, at the lovely Passages Bookshop in Portland. Doors open at 7pm; 7:30 start (no late entry).
Jami and Elizabeth both have new books, and I'll be reading some new work.
We'd love to see you! 📚🎤🌸
PDX friends! Our beloved third place, The Shaku Bar, is closing, and we’re playing there one last time this Friday with the wonderful Charlie Myers. Join us!
Ugh. In case you hadn’t heard: our third place, our favorite bar, @TheShakuBarPDX is shutting down in less than 2 weeks!!!
We want to send them off with a little love letter in the form of some music THIS Friday, April 10, starting at 6pm with the inimitable @charlie_myers_music and a subset of us from @Hedgfire .
Weather should be ideal for an intimate patio show on possibly the last weekend left to visit Portland’s best local!
Join us as my dad, David Hedges @steens_poet , launches his latest book, “Capillary Action: Verse in a Light Vein,” a timeless tome that perfectly captures his wit and spirit, at @MotherFoucaultsBooks on April 19 @ 3pm.
Book design by María Milner (arm in arm with David in this post’s first photo). Original illustrations by the ever-so-talented @jim.agpalza . 🧑🎨
David will read excerpts from the book, which will be for sale and available for signing by the author. 💅
A few of us from @Hedgefire will play some tunes as well! 🎵
You can find out more about this and David’s other books at
Come visit the @airliepress table at the AWP Bookfair (T554) in Baltimore
Our author signings:
Friday, March 6, 1-2p
Valerie Witte, author of 'A Rupture in the Interiors' (2023)
Saturday, March 7, 11a-12p
Ching-In Chen, author of 'Shiny City' (2025)
Saturday, March 7, 12-1p
Jess Yuan, author of 'Slow Render' (2024)
I'll also be reading with Jess & others at the AWP Offsite Thursday night, March 5, 8PM, The Lithuanian Hall, 851 Hollins St
[image description: photo of Airlie editor & author Ching-In Chen smiling & sitting at the Airlie Press table at AWP with books, flyers, and a white banner with black text that says Airlie Press | Portland, Oregon | Poetry from the Pacific Northwest]
#airliepress #pnwpoetry #awp2026 #poetsofinstagram
I'm excited to be presenting about Literary Mutations and Generative Partnerships with @mawsheinwin , @literaryanimals , and Jhani Randhawa on Monday, 2/16, for the 53rd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture. 3:15pm ET. Such a delight collaborating with this awesome team of collaborators! This virtual event is free to attend; register @ bit.ly/4abQILK
Hi, Bay Area peeps!
I'm honored to be participating in this upcoming event, a book launch and party celebrating the life and work of poet Elliot Harmon.
Please scan the QR code or go here to purchase tickets (this is required to ensure that we have enough food for the event): dkwproductions.com/events/gray-and-something-launch
Event Info:
When: Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 5pm
Where: Tipsy Yeti Restaurant & Bar, 2512 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA
Featuring:
🎤 Readings from the book by @skdrewz , @heidi_kasa_writer , @instadellawatson , Jessica Wickens, and special guests
🎵 Live music by @segdeha and Valerie Witte of @hedgefire
🍅 Vegetarian buffet dinner
📖 Gray and Something books available for purchase; proceeds from book sales will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
🎟️ RSVP/tickets required so we can plan the food order.
Hope to see you there!
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