Happy Halloween!
The Stacks will be open our normal hours on Friday, October 31st.
We will have candy for trick-or-treaters between 5-7pm, so if you’re out in the neighborhood, please stop by and show us your amazing costume!
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!
The Stacks Coffeehouse will be at the Portland Book Festival again this year. Visit us outside of the Exhibit Hall, where we’ll be serving coffee, tea, and a variety of cold drinks!
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 November is TBD.
October’s Featured Reader was Amy Baskin!
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 October is Amy Baskin.
Amy Baskin is an Oregon Literary Arts Fellow and 4-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She is the author of Hysterical Cake (Dancing Girl Press, 2022), Night Hag (Unsolicited Press, 2023), which explores femininity through the eternal voice of Lilith, the first woman, and Skull (The Poetry Box, 2024), a journey of healing from brain injury. She works for the Departments of English and History at Lewis & Clark College and helps run literary arts programs including Fir Acres Writing Workshop and the Visiting Writers Series, which is open to the public. She serves as staff advisor for The Palatine Hill Review, a student-run literary journal.
Amy Baskin
Join us to hear readings from the MFA program at Portland State University!
Every Tuesday is Writing Cafe at The Stacks! Learn more here.
On Tuesday, October 14th, during the second session of Writing Cafe, 6-8pm, we will be hosting Poetica @ The Stacks Coffeehouse. Our guest host, Devin Nelson, is a poet and the host of a workshop and open mic series based in Charlotte, North Carolina, called Poetica. This session will include a short workshop, time to write, and a longer-than-usual open mic. We’re excited to have him host, and hope you’ll join us in welcoming him!
Here is a link to sign-up ahead of time to participate in the Poetica Open Mic! Thank you for giving our guest host a heads up about your attendance. Pre-registration isn’t required, so if you haven’t signed up, don’t be shy, we’d still love to see you! As always, this special session of Writing Cafe is free and open to everyone. Hope to see you there!
Hayward’s Pen is a collection of poetic messages on motivation, forgiveness, love, heartbreak, enlightenment, transformation, self-worth, nature, family, and coming to terms with loss. Nevertheless, it is primarily centered around the heart and relationships.
This poetry book has four chapters that walk the reader through different stages of life. Whether it be triumphs or lessons learned, the author presents a sense of transparency that makes it difficult not to find some connection with these pieces.
Devin Nelson, author of Hayward’s Pen: A Poetry Collection.
Devin Nelson
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 November 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!
Our next Craft Night will be October 8th.
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 September is Christopher Diaz.
Christopher Diaz has been featured by NBC news, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Poets & Writers.org, and more. He is a two-time grand slam champion of Houston’s slam poetry team, “Write About Now,” which ranked fifth in the nation in 2018, and more recently won first place at the 2023 Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam festival with my PNW slam team, team “tbd.”
He specializes in portrait and performing arts photography and has previously taught poetry and coached performance with the non-profit “Writers in the Schools.”
Christopher Diaz
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!
Please note: New Masculinities is normally on the second Wednesday of the month, but this September, the meeting will be the third Wednesday of the month. Thank you!
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.
Lisbeth White
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 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.
Toni Lumbrazo Luna (Photo by Maria Vara)
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!
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!
Jane Belinda
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!
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.
Alan E. Rose
1831 N Killingsworth St — Portland, OR — 503-384-2324
