

Bloomsday
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.

Joshua Pollock & Sam Lohmann
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.

Tom's Book Club -May. WG Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn"
Join us for a discussion of W.G. Sebald’s “The Rings of Saturn”

Jason Morris, Ryan Newton, & Jackie Motzer
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.



TimeSpace.Productions author reading
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.
Jacquesrates. Beatnik Verse
Welcome Jacquesrates to the shop for our first reading/performance.