Readers & Writers

Portland Public Library is excited to introduce new seasonal reading challenges for adults in 2025. We’re keeping things going with the Adult Summer Reading Challenge.

Read books, complete fun activities, and enter to win a gift card to a bookstore.

Portland Ovations has a lively season packed with touring Broadway shows! Join us in reading and discussing books that are related to themes in three of these shows. Participants will have a chance to win a free pair of tickets to each show.

Push your reading boundaries and hear different perspectives on both popular and lesser-known books! Each participant will join the club on equal footing. The discussion will be group-led, and library staff will be on hand to help moderate. All members of the community are encouraged to participate and share their thoughts.

Join us every other Thursday at noon in Congress Square Park for Blurb Club, the book club where you might just find your new favorite book!

Join us every third Friday for Blurb Club @ Burbank, the book club where you might just find your new favorite book!

Are you unsure of what to read next? Our Reader’s Advisory staff is here to help! We’re ready to put our professional book-matching skills to work for adults, teens, and children.

Looking for creative inspiration? Join fellow writers for prompt-based writing time on the first Tuesday of every month. All experience levels are welcome. No registration required.

This is a writing group that meets each Saturday morning! This is for anyone who likes to write or would like to start. All skill levels, beginners to experienced, are welcome.

Signature MiMi (she/siya/they) is a poetic being, creative expressionista, nomadic sorcerer, and the eighth Portland Poet Laureate.

Yashaswini (Yashu) Derisala (she/her) is a young, brown, first-generation South Indian Telugu immigrant woman who is going to be a senior at Scarborough High School. She is the first Portland Youth Poet Laureate.