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Twelve local reading series and small-press publishers have contributed programming to the second annual Portland Poetry Confluence, which will cover the gamut of contemporary approaches to writing, reading, and distributing poetry.

Atrium: the venue

Atrium Movement & Events “is a movement-centered studio dedicated to helping each of us become our most integrated selves, together.” We have been lucky to have such a generous and supportive host, conveniently located in Southeast Portland. All events this year will again take place at Atrium.

Programming

The festival will begin with a featured reading on Friday evening. A second featured reading on Saturday evening will follow a morning and afternoon schedule of eight events in two spaces, and the festival will wrap up on Sunday morning with another four events.

The Book Fair

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

Charity E. Yoro

Charity E. Yoro (she/her) is a writer and poet whose work has appeared on The Rumpus, poets.org, Tupelo Press Quarterly, and elsewhere, and has received support from Kundiman, McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House), and Sustainable Arts Foundation, along with residencies at Small Press Traffic and Mineral School. Her debut poetry collection ten-cent flower & other territories (First Matter Press) won the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry of the 2025 Oregon Book Awards. Born, raised, and educated on the east side of O‘ahu, she currently lives west of Denver with her wild, loving family.

Cedar Sigo

Cedar Sigo is a poet and member of the Suquamish Nation. He studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of endless books and pamphlets of poetry, including All This Time (Wave Books, 2021), Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005) and most recently Siren of Atlantis (Wave Books, 2025). In 2022 he received a grants to artists award from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He has taught all over the country including The University of Washington, Bard College, Washington University, Naropa University and The Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Lofall, Washington.

Joan Naviyuk Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) & Qawiaraq (Mary’s Igloo). Her books include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, Milk Black Carbon, Dark Traffic, & with snow pouring southward past the window, & several chapbooks. She co-edited the Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology & Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic. Forthcoming work includes the co-edited Colonialism and the Environment: Pasts, Presents, Futures, and & all the ones who chose to leave her. The recipient of the 2026 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, she is a Guggenheim, Radcliffe, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist, & United States Artists Fellow, raising her children in Oregon, where she is Chair and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College.

Jennifer (JP) Perrine

Jennifer (JP) Perrine is the author of five award-winning books of poetry: Beautiful Outlaw, Again, The Body Is No Machine, In the Human Zoo, and No Confession, No Mass. Other recent work appears in the anthologies Best Small Fictions, Uncertain Girls in Uncertain Times, and A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Lit Collection. JP lives in Portland, where they cohost the Incite: Queer Writers Read series, guide nature and forest therapy retreats, and manage an equity and environmental justice program for the state of Oregon.
www.jenniferperrine.org

Charles Valle

Charles Valle’s Proof of Stake: An Elegy was published by Fonograf Editions in 2021. He lives in Portland, OR.

Emily Kendal Frey

Emily Kendal Frey is the author of several chapbooks and chapbook collaborations, including The Grief Performance and Sorrow Arrow (which won the Oregon Book Award). Her latest collection, Lovability, is out from Fonograf Editions. She is a practicing psychotherapist.

Programming partners

Spare Room

Graft Union

Fonograf Editions

De-Canon

IPRC

Literary Portland for Palestine

Corporeal Writing

Old Pal

Outer Voice

Incite

Wave Books

Street Roots

Sponsors