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Seven local reading series and small-press publishers have contributed programming to the first Portland Poetry Confluence: readings, panels, workshops, a listening party, a maker space, and more! Full details coming soon.

Atrium: the venue

Atrium Movement & Events, is “a movement-centered community that stays fiercely unpretentious, boundlessly curious, and radically kind.” We were lucky to find such a generous and supportive host, conveniently located in Southeast Portland. All events this year will take place at Atrium.

Programming

The festival will begin and end with featured readings, on Friday and Saturday evenings. The Saturday morning and afternoon schedule will include eight events in two spaces, covering the gamut of contemporary approaches to writing, reading, and distributing poetry.

The Bookfair

Throughout the festival, attendees will have access to a curated bookfair, featuring local and regional small presses, and poetry- and publishing-related ventures.

Stephanie Adams-Santos

Stephanie Adams-Santos is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, screenwriting, illustration, and ritual. Their work draws from the ancestral, mythological, and dream realms of inner life. They are the author of several poetry collections and chapbooks, including Dream of Xibalba (winner of the 2021 Orison Poetry Prize) and Swarm Queen’s Crown (2016 Lambda finalist). Stephanie is currently developing Ojo de la Selva — a mythic, animist tarot deck for divining ancestral and ecological memory. Stephanie believes in art as a vital force of transformation and liberation — and stands for a free Palestine, the abolition of ICE, and the undoing of the fascist imagination.

Rae Armantrout

Describing the poems in Rae Armantrout’s latest book, Go Figure, Library Journal says, “she has honed enduring art on the ephemera that constitute a consciousness in motion through the present.” Charles Bernstein says, “Her sheer, often hilarious, ingenuity is an aesthetic triumph.” Armantrout’s 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award that year; in 2010 Versed won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals including several editions of The Best American Poetry. She is Professor Emerita at UC San Diego.

Janice Lee

Janice Lee (she/they) is a Korean American writer, teacher, spiritual scholar, and shamanic healer. She is the author of eight books of fiction, creative nonfiction, & poetry, most recently Imagine a Death (Texas Review Press, 2021), Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Oregon Book Award, and A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, a collaborative novel coauthored with Brenda Iijima (Meekling Press, 2023). She is the Operational Creative Director at Corporeal Writing and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University.

Anis Mojgani

Anis Mojgani served as Oregon’s tenth Poet Laureate. A two-time champion of the National Poetry Slam, and winner of the international World Cup Poetry Slam, Anis is the author of six books of poetry, an opera libretto, and a forthcoming children’s picture book. His work has appeared on HBO, NPR, and amongst numerous literary journals. Originally from New Orleans, Anis lives in Portland, where he can be found making art in his studio and occasionally reading poems from out its window at sunset to others. More on Anis can be found at thepianofarm.com.

David Seung

David Seung is a Korean-American writer, educator, tour guide, comedian, and line cook from Portland, Oregon. He has performed for the St. John’s Comedy Festival, the RIP City Comedy Festival, the New York Asian Comedy Festival, and Don’t Tell Comedy. His debut book of poetry, Silkworm’s Pansori, was released in 2025 by The Song Cave, and focuses on the traditional Korean sijo form.

Jane Wong

Jane Wong is the author of the memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House, 2023). She has also published two collections of poetry: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, Artist Trust, Hedgebrook, Ucross, Loghaven, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and others. She grew up in a Chinese American take-out restaurant on the Jersey shore and is an Associate Professor at Western Washington University.

Programming partners

Constellation

De-Canon

Graft Union

Spare Room

Buckman Journal

First Matter Press

Fonograf Editions

Sponsors