Our next Craft Night will be August 6th.

The Stacks hosts a Craft Night on the first Thursday of each month! Everyone is welcome, and this is a free event. Drinks and snacks available will be available for purchase, but no purchase is necessary to attend.

Bring your own craft projects and meet your neighbors for chit-chat while we craft together!

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

The Humble Poets' Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm.

The featured reader for July will be RJ Equality.

RJ Equality Ingram lives in Portland, Oregon & works as a necromancer & weigher of soles for Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette. RJ received their MFA in creative writing at Saint Mary’s College of California with concentrations in poetry & creative nonfiction. RJ’s second collection of poetry Peacock Lane was published on Summer Solstice 2026 & their debut collection of poetry The Autobiography of Nancy Drew was published by White Stag in 2024. RJ is also the author of the chapbooks How To Eat An Entire Wedding Cake & Two Angels. RJ lives with their husband Michael Lee & their cats Twyla & Senator Padme Amidala who chase feathers tied to wands in the shadow of their late sister Brenda who lost a leg crossing Burnside in the moonlight. Follow @RJ_Equality

Are you a man looking for community, connection, and a place to explore healthy expressions of masculinity? Join this monthly discussion, writing, and reflection space for cis and trans men. Over coffee and snacks we chat about current issues about gender, sexuality, and masculinity—annd how those things intersect with our own lives. Then we take quiet time for journaling and processing our thoughts, and finally return together to share our insights. Facilitator Adam Segal guides the conversation with an intersectional feminist lens and an eye for vulnerability and honest expression. No prior reading is required. All we ask is a willingness to be present and respectful to others!

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Our next Craft Night will be July 2nd.

The Stacks hosts a Craft Night on the first Thursday of each month! Everyone is welcome, and this is a free event. Drinks and snacks available will be available for purchase, but no purchase is necessary to attend.

Bring your own craft projects and meet your neighbors for chit-chat while we craft together!

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Join Oregon and Washington authors Shilo Niziolek, Remy Nakamura, and Catherine Broadwall as they share readings of poetry and fiction. Book signings will follow!

Shilo Niziolek is a 2024 YA Lambda Literary Fellow and a Scholarship recipient for the 2025 Community of Writers workshop. She is the author of Wound (forthcoming in 2027 with Lit Fox Books) and Unwilding (forthcoming with Cornerstone Press in 2027) as well as Little Deaths, Pigeon House, Fever, and atrophy. Her work has appeared in Juked, Phoebe Journal, West Trade Review, and Pork Belly Press, among others. Shilo is a writing and literature instructor at Clackamas Community College and the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Scavengers,housed with Querencia Press. 

Remy Nakamura is a queer author, activist and trail runner. He writes dark, weird, and hopeful fiction. His stories can be found in Escape Pod and Pseudopod magazines, and many anthologies. He has a Masters in Genre Writing from Edinburgh Napier University. He is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and serves on their Board. He is also a former Director at Large for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. He grew up in Japan, Greece and the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in Portland with his spouse and three cats.

Catherine Broadwall is the author of Aftermath (Girl Noise Press, 2026), Water Spell (Cornerstone Press, 2025), Fulgurite (Cornerstone Press, 2023), Shelter in Place (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and other collections. Her writing has appeared in Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. She is the winner of the 2023 Paula Svonkin Creative Arts Award and the 2020 COG Poetry Award, as well as a finalist for the poetry categories of the 2021 Mississippi Review Prize and 2021 Pinch Literary Awards. 

The Humble Poets' Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm.

The featured reader for June will be Shawn Aveningo Sanders.

Shawn Aveningo Sanders shares the creative life with her husband in Beaverton, running The Poetry Box press. Her poems have recently appeared in Rattle, ONE ART, contemporary haibun online, Sheila-Na-Gig, Jackdaw Review, Gyroscope Review, and the award-winning anthology, Love Is for All of Us. Shawn is a multiple Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Touchstone Award nominee and has won prizes from the Oregon Poetry Association. Her newest book Pockets (MoonPath Press) was a finalist in Concrete Wolf’s Chapbook Contest. When not writing, find her shopping for a new pair of red shoes or toy dinosaurs for her granddaughter. You can learn more at RedShoePoet.com.

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Are you a man looking for community, connection, and a place to explore healthy expressions of masculinity? Join this monthly discussion, writing, and reflection space for cis and trans men. Over coffee and snacks we chat about current issues about gender, sexuality, and masculinity—annd how those things intersect with our own lives. Then we take quiet time for journaling and processing our thoughts, and finally return together to share our insights. Facilitator Adam Segal guides the conversation with an intersectional feminist lens and an eye for vulnerability and honest expression. No prior reading is required. All we ask is a willingness to be present and respectful to others!

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Tuesday, June 9th will be a special Portland Book Week edition of our weekly Writing Cafe event. Hope to see you there!

Reservations are not required, but they help us know how many people are coming, and ensure you have a seat if we run out of room. Click here to reserve your seat.

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

The Humble Poets' Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm.

The featured reader for May will be Kristin Berger.

Kristin Berger is the author of six poetry collections including Earthwork (The Poetry Box, 2022), Echolocation (Cirque Press, 2018), How Light Reaches Us (Kelsey Books, 2nd Edition, 2024), and For the Willing (2nd edition, Nightjar Poetry Press, 2024). She is the recipient of residencies from PLAYA, OSU's Spring Creek Project, and H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, and has contributed poetry to the Writing the Land Project, which pairs poets with nature preserves and wilderness areas. Kristin serves as President of PLAYA board of directors and lives in the Portland, Oregon area. More at kristinbergerpoet.com

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Are you a man looking for community, connection, and a place to explore healthy expressions of masculinity? Join this monthly discussion, writing, and reflection space for cis and trans men. Over coffee and snacks we chat about current issues about gender, sexuality, and masculinity—annd how those things intersect with our own lives. Then we take quiet time for journaling and processing our thoughts, and finally return together to share our insights. Facilitator Adam Segal guides the conversation with an intersectional feminist lens and an eye for vulnerability and honest expression. No prior reading is required. All we ask is a willingness to be present and respectful to others!

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Our next Craft Night will be May 7th.

The Stacks hosts a Craft Night on the first Thursday of each month! Everyone is welcome, and this is a free event. Drinks and snacks available will be available for purchase, but no purchase is necessary to attend.

Bring your own craft projects and meet your neighbors for chit-chat while we craft together!

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Are you a man looking for community, connection, and a place to explore healthy expressions of masculinity? Join this monthly discussion, writing, and reflection space for cis and trans men. Over coffee and snacks we chat about current issues about gender, sexuality, and masculinity—annd how those things intersect with our own lives. Then we take quiet time for journaling and processing our thoughts, and finally return together to share our insights. Facilitator Adam Segal guides the conversation with an intersectional feminist lens and an eye for vulnerability and honest expression. No prior reading is required. All we ask is a willingness to be present and respectful to others!

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.

Are you a man looking for community, connection, and a place to explore healthy expressions of masculinity? Join this monthly discussion, writing, and reflection space for cis and trans men. Over coffee and snacks we chat about current issues about gender, sexuality, and masculinity—annd how those things intersect with our own lives. Then we take quiet time for journaling and processing our thoughts, and finally return together to share our insights. Facilitator Adam Segal guides the conversation with an intersectional feminist lens and an eye for vulnerability and honest expression. No prior reading is required. All we ask is a willingness to be present and respectful to others!

Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.