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Pop-Up: Brennan DeFrisco
PBF PassNovember 4, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Portland Art Museum
Brennan DeFrisco pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with his poetry collection Honeysuckle & Nightshade.
Brennan is paired with the artwork Untitled (Woman and Man Sitting) by Charlotte Lewis; found in the Black Artists of Oregon exhibit, on the 2nd floor of the Portland Art Museum.
“Brennan DeFrisco’s writing moves you, literally and literarily. He is, at once, wholly accessible and devastatingly profound, dropping truths like divebombs on your heart. Reading his work is what it is like to be simultaneously uplifted and utterly floored, and glad about both.” — Nazelah Jamison, Author of Evolutionary Heart
Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events. Passes are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come, first-served. More info here.
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Brennan DeFrisco
Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor, voice actor, & arts coordinator from the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & program coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, the Redwood Poetry Festival, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. He’s the author of A Heart With No Scars, published by Nomadic Press and Black Lawrence Press, Honeysuckle & Nightshade, published by Swimming with Elephants Publications, & has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of Lunch Ticket and the 2022 California Poets in the Schools State Anthology. Brennan facilitates creative writing and performance workshops, serving K-12 classrooms, incarcerated youth, adults, seniors, and various arts education programs. His work has been published in Red Wheelbarrow, Oracle Fine Arts Review, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Gemini & elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.
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