This month we read Cristina Rivera Garza’s “Death Takes Me.” Join us on Monday, December 8th at 7:00

BOOK RELEASE READING / PARTY (FREE!)

23 Unread Novels by Riley Michael Parker

Featuring readings from Riley Michael Parker, poet Lisa Ciccarello, and poet / musician Colin Keating. Free snacks and beverages, plus music, fun people, and a nice open space. Doors at 6:30, party / reading at 7pm, hang til whenever.

23 UNREAD NOVELS by Riley Michael Parker

Written in direct response to The Abortion by Richard Brautigan, 23 Unread Novels is a collection of twenty-three short & shorter stories about 3-legged cats, past lives, uncultured waitresses, Viet Nam, and three women named Sam.

Riley Michael Parker is a 40-something writer and comic artist living in Portland Oregon. He has a wife, two step-cats, and one dead parent. He is the author of POEM DOG (poems and comics), Summertime Blues (erotic "fiction"), and Three Halloweens Ago (a crime / romance novella). He currently has 3 pieces in the Northwest Museum of Comic Arts (Downtown Portland), and countless more that all known museums refuse to display (Southeast Portland). He is kind of fat, kind of ugly, and has a mustache.

partycomic.com

@rileymichaelparker on instagram

Lisa Ciccarello is a poet and creative guide based in Portland. Her work covers a wide range of topics—everything from the splendor of nature to survival horror video games, from cheesy movies to 18th century prison reports, and maybe six or seven other things. Her specialty is finding the intersection between playfulness and personal attachment, and exploring the boundaries of self-reflection.

https://lisaciccarello.com/

Colin Keating is a poet, musician, and collage artist in the Pacific Northwest. He makes earnest, sometimes funny, and occasionally cynical (in a hopeful way) music, poems, and visual art. He is taller than many poets you may be familiar with, and needs glasses to see properly. His birthday is December 4th, and he's stoked to be spending that evening sharing his work with friends and strangers.

@francisbaconbits on instagram

Join us in a discussion of Robert Gluck’s 1994 novel, “Margery Kempe.”

C.E Putnam has lived in four world capitals: London, Singapore, Bangkok, and Washington DC but now operates the Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research (P.I.S.O.R.) from Portland, Oregon.  Inside his seventh book, The Bird May Be Dead But It Is Your Bird (P.I.S.O.R. Publications 2024), you might find: an amazing bowl of noodles, a shortwave radio, starfish, eight kinds of rain, semi house trained beavers, a frequently tardy blacksmith, so much moss, penguin priests, and many more creatures living, dying, and dead!

His sound works include P.I.S.O.R. SCARES, a series of mind-melting Halloween themed sound collages and an ambient-drone work, “Music for Plants and Other Living Things.” 

Andy Criest is a Portland Musician

Join us for Tom’s book club.

July’s selection is Teju Cole’s Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time.

Following in James Joyce's tradition of releasing books on his birthday, poet James Maynard will be celebrating his birthday with the release of a new chapbook, The Fourteen Thieves & Body Cams (Monday Editions, 2025)

Celebrate Bloomsday 2025 by reading any passage of the book at any time of the day. We’ll have a copy set up in the shop, or bring your own.

Join us in a discussion of Hiromi Ito’s “The Thorn Puller”

Joshua Pollack’s latest book Narcan Incantations is out now on Garganta Press. He is a poet and translator, among other things. His work can be found in magazines including Chicago Review, jubilat, Vestiges, and Diagram. His translation of Jose Vicente Anaya’s Hikuri (Peyote) was published in 2020 by The Operating System, and his translation of Salvador Elizondo’s The Secret Crypt was published in 2022 by Daley Archive Press. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works as operations coordinator for Street Books, a mobile Library and harm reduction outreach project serving people who live outside and at the margins.

Sam Lohmann is a poet and librarian and parent living in Vancouver, Washington. He is the author of various books and pamphlets, most recently a long birthday poem called Liniment (self-published 2024). Recent work can be read online in the journals Hot Pink and La Mosca. Sam co-edits Airfoil Chapbooks with David Abel (returning after a long hiatus) and is a co-organizer of Portland's long-running Spare Room reading series.

Join us for a discussion of W.G. Sebald’s “The Rings of Saturn”

Please join us in welcoming San Francisco poet Jason Morris together with Portland’s own Ryan Newton & Jackie Motzer.

Jason Morris was born and raised in Vermont. He is the author of eleven books and chapbooks, including Attending Void (forthcoming from Lithic Books, 2025), Hologram (forthcoming from Two Way Mirror, 2025); Low Life (Bird & Beckett Books, 2021); and Levon Helm (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018). In addition to poetry, he has written essays on Clark Coolidge's Crystal Text and Bernadette Mayer's interest in Nathaniel Hawthorne. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their child.

Jackie Motzer grew up in Ohio and moved to San Francisco to attend the New College of California’s Poetics program where she edited the independent imprint The Body Elevator Press. Her chapbook The Nymph Poem was published by Snag Press and her work was featured in Ellipsis Magazine. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.

Ryan Newton is a Poet who lives and works in Portland Oregon. He attended the New College of California Poetics program in San Francisco, and grew up in the Bay Area. His latest chap books of Poetry are Spirit Elevator, Mountain Waves & Lipstick Pickups. He is working on a book length collection of Poems called NIGHT WINDOW.

Join us for an evening of sound.

Join us in a discussion of Esther Kinsky’s “Seeing Further”

TimeSpace.Publishing Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Two of its Books, Stories &

Scenes by Jean Nicholas, and Conversation of a Madman by Vorveit Iconoclast. TimeSpace.Productions will be hosting an author reading at Word Virus Books (6518 SE

Foster, Portland Oregon, 97206) on Sunday March 30th between the hours of 6-8pm.

Welcome Jacquesrates to the shop for our first reading/performance.