Our next Craft Night will be August 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!

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 August is Lisbeth White.

Lisbeth White is a genre-nonconforming poet born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of the poetry collection, American Sycamore (Perugia, 2022) and co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power (North Atlantic Books, 2023). Her experimental nonfiction chapbook, A Most Natural Thing: An Elemental Memoir (Red Mare Press, 2025), won The Master’s Review Open Chapbook contest. She is a 2025 Periplus fellow and is at work on her first novel. She can be found sporadically on IG as @earthmaven, and less sporadically out in the woods.

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

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

Our next Craft Night will be August 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.

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 is Toni Lumbrazo Luna.

Toni Lumbrazo Luna is a poet, editor, visual artist and the author of three poetry books: Driven By Hope (Printed Matter Vancouver, 2019) Jesus Is A Gas, and Wind Wing. She is the co-founder of Printed Matter Vancouver, a small press which provides editing and writing-coaching services to new and emerging writers. Toni’s career included time as a social worker, grant writer, and career counselor. Although originally from Rome, New York, and raised in Southern California, she’s made the Pacific Northwest her home for many years. 

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!

No Craft Night in July! Enjoy the 4th of July, and we’ll be back in August!

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 is Jane Belinda.

Jane Belinda is a queer poet and fiber artist from Portland, Oregon. They are the Director of Portland Poetry Slam and one of the co-founders of the Bigfoot Poetry Festival. They were also a finalist for the 2017 Women of the World Poetry Slam, despite being non-binary and not of this world. Jane uses poetry and humor to explore the oversaturation of grief that comes with living in Late-Stage Capitalism. They are so happy to be here! 

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!

Our next Craft Night will be June 5th.

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 May is Alan E. Rose.

Alan E. Rose is the author of three published novels and one novella. His novel about the AIDS epidemic, As If Death Summoned (Bywater Books/Amble Press), won the 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year award for the LGBTQ+ category and was featured in the Oregon Historical Society's exhibit, "Forty Years of HIV/AIDS in Oregon." Alan coordinates WordFest, the monthly gathering of writers and readers in SW Washington state, where he conducts writing workshops and produces a monthly newsletter.  More information at www.alan-rose.com.

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

New Masculinities Group has been canceled this week! NO MEETING ON MAY 14th! We’ll be back in June!

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.

Our next Craft Night will be April 3rd.

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.

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 April is Justin Rigamonti.

Justin Rigamonti teaches English at Portland Community College and serves as the Program Coordinator for PCC's Carolyn Moore Writing Residency. He's also the Poetry Coordinator for Chatter PDX, Portland's new Sunday morning chamber music + spoken word event. Justin is the author of two children's books and his poems have been recently published or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Hayden's Ferry Review, Frontier Poetry, American Poetry Review, Rattle, Smartish Pace, and New Ohio Review. 

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED!

We’re sorry for any inconvenience, but will reschedule for a future date when all of these incredible readers can make it! Thank you for your understanding!

Join us for a reading with Adrienne Chung, Alisha Dietzman and Amanda Hawkins.

Amanda Hawkins’ first book of poetry, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones, was published by Wandering Aengus Press in January 2025. Their work has been nominated for three Pushcart prizes, listed as honorable mention, semi-finalist, and finalist for various contests and awards, and won the Scotti Merrill Award from Key West Literary Seminar, the Editors’ Prize for Poetry at The Florida Review, and the Wandering Aengus Book Prize. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, Honey Literary, Massachusetts Review, The Orison Anthology, Orion, The Rumpus, The Southampton Review, Terrain, Tin House, Tin House Online, and Image, among others.

Alisha Dietzman is the author of Sweet Movie (Beacon Press, 2023), selected by Victoria Chang for the National Poetry Series. A finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Oregon Book Awards, Sweet Movie was also shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Her creative and critical work has received support from the Rebecca Swift Foundation, the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission.

Adrienne Chung's debut poetry collection, Organs of Little Importance (Penguin, 2023), won the National Poetry Series. Her work appears in The Yale Review, The Chicago Review, Diagram, and elsewhere. A graduate of Stanford University and the UW-Madison MFA program, she has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She lives in Portland, Oregon and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Willamette University.

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

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

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