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The Mark Austin Memorial Pacing Series continued with the second round on Sunday, June 9 at Dresden Raceway with Premier Elsa and Write About Now repeating in their respective $5,000 filly and colt divisions.

For National Poetry Month, which takes place in April, poets share advice on how to make a meaningful connection with poetry.

Tonight's edition of Talking Earth features three of the co-founders of the Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam Festival: Julia Gaskill, Stephen Meads and Jane Belinda. The Festival will happen in downtown Portland this coming June, with events at Powells and the downtown Multnomah County Library, among other venues.

Tonight's edition of Talking Earth features three of the co-founders of the Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam Festival: Julia Gaskill, Stephen Meads and Jane Belinda. The Festival will happen in downtown Portland this coming June, with events at Powells and the downtown Multnomah County Library, among other venues.

Celebrate underrepresented voices through BIPOC Book Fest's annual showcase of literary works and panels featuring Black, Indigenous, people of color, and other creatives, taking place at Asia Society Texas.

Celebrate underrepresented voices through BIPOC Book Fest's annual showcase of literary works and panels featuring Black, Indigenous, people of color, and other creatives, taking place at Asia Society Texas.

By turning actions into identities, you can get people to do what you want.

On tonight's edition of Talking Earth, local poets Julia Gaskill and Stephen Meads discuss the Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam, the history of poetry slam nationals, poetry readings in Portland past, present and future, as well as reading their own poetry.  The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam will happen in downtown Portland on June 2nd and 3rd; the fundraisers Slam Olymics and Nerd

Plantains and Our Becoming looks at the identities and histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti to celebrate the Black diasporic experience.

The situation is getting worse in Iran with the government there sentencing 15,000 protestors to death as a “harsh lesson” for all rebels.