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Highlights from the 2022 Verselandia! youth slam poetry competition, featuring live performances from Portland-area students.

Jon Raymond and Dao Strom discuss multidisciplinary writing and artistry with Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani at Pickathon music festival.

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BENNINGTON — Sixteen critically acclaimed, award-winning authors and faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars will host Writers Reading, an evening reading series during the MFA programs summer residency, which is

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