Wider Window Poetry

First Monday 10-11pm

Wider Window Poetry: bringing you voices you may not have heard from places you may not have been. Local poets of color read and discuss their works.

Host Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi warrior poet. Her work has been featured by Fault Lines Poetry, Windfall, KBOO and an Everyman’s Library anthology, among others. Her collections include Knocking from Inside, High-Voltage Lines, Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare’s Stable, as well as the forthcoming The Day of My First Driving Lesson and Dervish Lions. She works as a data analyst for the Portland Public School district and is president emerita of the Oregon Poetry Association. Visit her online at knockingfrominside.blogspot.com