Join us for Open Mic Night!

Hosted by Matthew Dickman on Saturday, April 26th, from 5–7 PM.

We’re thrilled to welcome writer Jay Ponteri, 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!

Jay Ponteri directed the creative writing program at Marylhurst University from 2008-2018 and is now the program head of PNCA at Willamette University’s Low-Residency Creative Writing program. He’s the author of the novel Someone Told Me (Widow and Orphan House, 2021), as well as Darkmouth Inside Me (Future Tense Books, 2014) and Wedlocked (Hawthorne Books, 2013), which received an Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction

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