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justin.rigamonti
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Please join us for a night of readings and celebration to mark the launch of landmark issues of two PCC publications: Sylvania’s Alchemy turns 50 & Cascade’s The Pointed Circle turns 40!

Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Doors at 6 p.m.
Event at 6:30 p.m.

PCC Cascade, Terrell Hall 122
5624 N Borthwick Ave, Portland, OR 97217

This special event will include contributor readings and words from the editors and will feature special guest readers Frank X Walker (author of ten books of poetry and founder of the Affrilachian poets) and Shauna Morgan (poet-scholar and Professor of Creative Writing and Africana Literature).

Alchemy’s 50th issue includes contributions by PCC students, faculty, and alumni, as well as a special folio of selections from Alchemy’s 50-year history. This celebration issue includes work by prolific poet and founding member of the Northwest Native American Writers Association (and PCC alumni), Gloria Bird; Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (Poet Laureate of the US) and Poet Laureate of Oregon, William Stafford; and Oregon Book Award-winning fiction-writer (and PCC alumni), Kesha Ajose Fisher.

The Pointed Circle’s 40th issue includes contributions by PCC students, faculty, and alumni. The issue features a special folio of selections from the first three years of the Carolyn Moore Writer’s House at PCC, including work by award-winning writers Ismet Prcic (winner of the 2013 Oregon Book Award for Fiction), Jae Nichelle (viral poetry star and author of the 2023 collection Gods Themselves), and Jose Hernandez Diaz (winner of the 2023 Benjamin Saltman Award).

Copies of both Alchemy and The Pointed Circle will be available at the event.

For questions, please contact Megan Savage or Justin Rigamonti.

We hope to see you there!