Mike Barber: Now (Dance Performance)
Feb
22
2:00 PM14:00
Community Event

Mike Barber: Now (Dance Performance)

Mike Barber happily presents Now, an evening of three new solo dances, performed by Mike and choreographed by three massively talented artists, Gregg Bielemeier, Randee Paufve, and Cydney Wilkes. Mike’s performance will be accompanied by a video performance of music and writing by Leanne Grabel.

Dates
Feb 20-21, 2026 at 8:00pm
Feb 22, 2026 at 2:00pm

Click to buy tickets and learn more!

View Event →
SPILL YOUR GUTS: Flash Memoir with Leanne Grabel
Mar
8
1:30 PM13:30
Class, Community Event

SPILL YOUR GUTS: Flash Memoir with Leanne Grabel

Join Leanne Grabel March 8th, 2026 at Eastside Jewish Commons for Spill Your Guts: Flash Memoir class. In Spilling Your Guts, you will be introduced to and write flash memoir. Flash memoir is a wonderfully accessible form, easy for the reader and somewhat easy for the writer.

Click to learn more and register! Sliding scale pricing available--$36 to $72

View Event →
SPILL YOUR GUTS: A Flash Memoir Workshop with Leanne Grabel
Apr
11
10:00 AM10:00
Class, Community Event

SPILL YOUR GUTS: A Flash Memoir Workshop with Leanne Grabel

Join Leanne Grabel in Seaview, WA on April 11th, 2026 for her Spill Your Guts: Flash Memoir class. In this workshop, you will write a series of flash (concise) memoirs--short pieces that recount events, people and places of impact throughout your life.

Click to learn more and register!

View Event →
Oregon Humanities LIVE
Nov
1
7:00 PM19:00
Readings

Oregon Humanities LIVE

Join the editors of Oregon Humanities magazine for an evening featuring recent contributors Saeeda Wright, Leanne Grabel, Brian Benson, Jennifer Perrine, and Judy Jiang reading essays and poems.

This is a free, all-ages event. No tickets or advance registration required.

This event is presented as part of the Portland Book Festival's Cover to Cover series.

View Event →
A Little Night's Poetry @ Mother Foucault's Bookshop
Oct
27
7:30 PM19:30

A Little Night's Poetry @ Mother Foucault's Bookshop

As part of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Mother Foucault’s is hosting a poetry reading featuring five local poets and four poets from the PAMLA community. Co-hosts Juan Delgado and Shawn Levy have put together a stellar roster of readers: Catherine Broadwall, Brian Stephen Ellis, Leanne Grabel, Youna Kwak, S. Renee Mitchell, Mindy Netifee, Richard Pamatatau, and Craig Svonkin.

Complimentary beverages and snacks will be on hand.

View Event →
Leanne Grabel, Brontosaurus: Illustrated Reading with Jackie Shannon Hollis & Shawn Aveningo Sanders
Nov
20
2:00 PM14:00
Readings

Leanne Grabel, Brontosaurus: Illustrated Reading with Jackie Shannon Hollis & Shawn Aveningo Sanders

A reading with Leanne Grabel, author of Brontosaurus: Illustrated and My Husband’s Eyebrows. Grabel will be joined in conversation by Jackie Shannon Hollis, author of This Particular Happiness, and Shawn Aveningo Sanders, author of What She Was Wearing.

Buy Brontosaurus: Illustrated Now
View Event →
Writing with Leanne Grabel: Spill Your Guts
Aug
7
to Aug 13
Class

Writing with Leanne Grabel: Spill Your Guts

  • Menucha Retreat & Conference Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

In this workshop, you will write a series of flash memoirs--short pieces that recount these events and people that formed and informed you. We will look at many examples, review poetic techniques and editing techniques so that your words will be concise and yet able to describe without becoming bogged down in length and complication. In essence, you will be writing prose poetry.

View Event →