• Date:Wednesday, May 1, 2013
  Time:6:00 PM
• Location:
  Weller Book Works
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Come gamesmaster Elizabeth for games the first and third Wednesday of every month. The game for May is yet to be determined.

• Date:Wednesday, May 8, 2013
  Time:6:00 PM
• Location:
  Weller Book Works
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Join John the Knit Wit and the gang for crafts and conversation! Lit Knit takes place the second and fourth Wednesdays of every month.

• Date:Wednesday, May 15, 2013
  Time:6:00 PM
• Location:
  Weller Book Works
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Join gamesmaster Elizabeth for games the first and third Wednesday of every month. The game for May is yet to be determined.

• Date:Thursday, May 16, 2013
  Time:7:00 PM
• Location:
  Weller Book Works
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The United States’ rate of incarceration is the highest in the world. Why and how did this happen? Marc Mauer’s Race to Incarcerate, first published in 1999, has become the essential text for understanding the exponential growth of the U.S. prison system and a canonical work for those active in the U.S. criminal justice reform movement. Now, Sabrina Jones, a member of the World War 3 Illustrated collective and an acclaimed author of politically engaged comics, has collaborated with Mauer to adapt and update the original book into a vivid, engaging comics narrative designed to reach new audiences. Jones’s dramatic artwork adds passion and compassion to the complex story of four decades of prison expansion and its corrosive effect on generations of Americans.

Marc Mauer is the executive director of The Sentencing Project in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Race to Incarcerate, a semifinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the co-editor, with Meda Chesney-Lind, of Invisible Punishment (both available from The New Press). He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

• Date:Wednesday, May 22, 2013
  Time:6:00 PM
• Location:
  Weller Book Works
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Join John the Knit Wit and the gang for crafts and conversation! Lit Knit takes place the second and fourth Wednesdays of every month.

• Date:Monday, May 27, 2013
  Time:8:00 PM
• Location:
  Weller Book Works
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Salt City Slam will hold its first event at its new permanent home, Weller Book Works in Trolley Square. We'll start off right with the qualifying slam to send a representative to the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam! This event will feature the amazing Portland poet, Meg Waldron! 10 women will compete for the opportunity to represent SCS at the national event. Host: Competitors: 1. K Lu Quibelle 2. Ashley Finley 3. Jessica Dixon 4. Tami Porter-Jones 5. DeAnn Emett 6. Rebeca Mae 7. Courtney Hammond 8. Melody Van De Graaff 9. Karo 10. $5 / All Ages / Free Speech Zone Meg Waldron is a performance poet from Portland, OR. She has been a member of the 2011 and 2012 Portland Poetry Slam teams and made finals stage at the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam in Minneapolis, MN. Meg’s high energy performances are as witty as they are sincere, reminding us of how ridiculous our very serious lives can be. Perhaps best known for her Youtube hit “Shit Poets Say,” Meg is also the author of two chapbooks, “Sex, Drugs, Tuck N’ Roll” and “Meat and Feelings” and has been published in various anthologies across the country

• Date:Friday, May 31, 2013
  Time:6:30 PM
• Location:
  Weller Book Works
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Join us for our monthly Collector's Book Salon! We meet the last Friday of every month to enjoy books, food, drink, and engaging conversation. The May speaker is Alex Caldiero: poet, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and intermedia.