Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
The Break
Kaveh Akbar's poems appear recently in The New Yorker, New York Times, Paris Review, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. His newest book, Pilgrim Bell, will be published by Graywolf in 2021; he is also the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017). Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson Colleges.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Artists in Recovery Presents: An Evening with Lizzie No and Kasey Anderson
"Get Ready To Be Blown Away by Lizzie No’s Songwriting" — Rolling Stone
"I love Kasey Anderson’s writing – he’s a writer’s writer, which I often say about songwriters who tend to write as though they are building a narrative arc for a book within each song." — Hanif Abdurraqib
Join acclaimed songwriters Lizzie No and Kasey Anderson as they trade songs and stories, discussing their work and recovery.
This event is part of the Alano Club's Artists in Recovery series. It is FREE, all-ages and open to all but donations supporting the Artists in Recovery programming are encouraged and can be made here.
Artists in Recovery Presents: Melissa Febos, Lizzie No, and Kasey Anderson
Melissa Febos is the author of four books, including the nationally bestselling essay collection, GIRLHOOD, which has been translated into seven languages and was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and named a notable book of 2021 by NPR, Time, The Washington Post, and others. Her craft book, BODY WORK (2022), was also a national bestseller, an LA Times Bestseller, and an Indie Next Pick. Her fifth book, The Dry Season, is forthcoming from Alfred. A. Knopf.
"Get Ready To Be Blown Away by Lizzie No’s Songwriting" — Rolling Stone
"I love Kasey Anderson’s writing – he’s a writer’s writer, which I often say about songwriters who tend to write as though they are building a narrative arc for a book within each song." — Hanif Abdurraqib
Join writer Melissa Febos and songwriters Lizzie No and Kasey Anderson for an evening of reading and performance, as they share their work and discuss their ecovery.
This event is part of the Alano Club's Artists in Recovery series. It is FREE, all-ages and open to all but donations supporting the Artists in Recovery programming are encouraged and can be made here.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
The Break
Kaveh Akbar's poems appear recently in The New Yorker, New York Times, Paris Review, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. His newest book, Pilgrim Bell, will be published by Graywolf in 2021; he is also the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017). Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson Colleges.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
No One Heals Alone: 2024 Membership Drive
More than ever before in our lifetime, our social fabric has been stretched to its limit. From the ongoing and unprecedented addiction and mental health crisis left in the long wake of COVID, to the daunting effects of economic and racial inequality driving our houseless crisis, we’re being tested on multiple fronts.
While the state of our current addiction epidemic is harrowing, it simply can’t be ignored
From 2019-2023, the overdose death rate in Oregon grew by 353%. And Oregon continues to rank DEAD LAST when it comes to access to treatment and recovery services in the US, according to the most recent federal study of drug use and treatment access in the US. And with rising levels of homelessness unseen in recent history, more of our most vulnerable neighbors are suffering from addiction and mental health disorders, with far too few resources for support and assistance.
Put bluntly, for people facing addiction in our community, everyday life has never been tougher.
In spite of these heart-wrenching circumstances, I’m struck by the true compassion of the Alano Club community—your compassion—that drives our every effort to offer loving support to those in crisis no matter what. We do this together. And now you have an opportunity to rise with us once again when lives are hanging in the balance by taking one immediate, heartfelt step now:
Please make a generous gift in support of our No One Heals Alone —2024 Membership Drive.
Your donation, if received by May 31st, will provide twice the lifesaving help to individuals and families in recovery, as each dollar you give will be matched up to $2,500, thanks to a generous fellow donor.
Since COVID hit 4 years ago, your essential generosity has enabled us to assemble and lead the largest digital recovery support collaborative in the entire nation. In that time, your continued giving has helped us reach more than 867,000 people through digital recovery supports and services that create pathways to renewal—all at no cost for those in need.
Greg can speak to your impact firsthand. “I came to the Alano Club thinking I’d give recovery one more try, but I wasn’t feeling optimistic. Within minutes of walking through the front door, my life changed,” he says. “Two years later—most of that time amid a pandemic—I’m still in recovery and I owe it to the community I found at the Club.”
We owe it to you, too, because our crucial work couldn’t happen without you. Your matched gift today will provide twice the life-saving support for Greg and many others in this moment of urgent need.
Please rise with us today by giving a gift worth double to support the most vulnerable among us on their journey to recovery... so they can survive, thrive and be their healthiest selves just like Greg.
When Greg first discovered the incredible variety of transformative services and supports that you make possible, he’d never experienced anything like it. Stringing together weeks, let alone years, of continuous recovery had been a challenge for him—with little success until now. He shares:
“From virtual meetings to in-person AA groups to cooking classes to exercise and yoga, to Zoom events where I got to hear some of my favorite artists discuss their recovery, the Alano Club has made my own recovery feel like a full body, mind and heart transformation. I’m so grateful.”
For people suffering from addiction, this is the world of difference you help create right here at home. Because of the match, each dollar you give will go even further to strengthen our essential services that offer recovering individuals and their families a helping hand when it’s needed the most.
This means in person and digital AA meetings, family support groups, and peer mentoring. It means innovative models of movement-based programming like Peak Recovery and The Recovery Gym. It also means confronting the overdose crisis head-on in Oregon through our new program, Project RED. And through a local partnership, it means the delivery of healthy meals and recovery support to the growing number of unsheltered people in our community who are facing addiction... all thanks to you.
Please stand with us today by rushing a special gift to our 2024 Membership Drive. Your support really matters—because Portland needs recovery, and we need you!
Then show that you stand with those seeking a life free from the pain of addiction by sharing our No One Heals Alone campaign with a friend, family member or neighbor, and let them know their gift is worth double, if received by May 31.
In this time of tremendous challenge, your generosity is as important as ever. More lives will be saved, and more hope given when you donate today. By rebuilding a stronger, healthier community together, we all stand to benefit. No one heals alone. And with your support, we’ll help ensure that no one struggling with addiction in our community has to again.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
The Break
Kaveh Akbar's poems appear recently in The New Yorker, New York Times, Paris Review, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. His newest book, Pilgrim Bell, will be published by Graywolf in 2021; he is also the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017). Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson Colleges.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Hanif Abdurraqib: There's Always This Year
The Alano Club of Portland's Artists in Recovery series is proud to partner with Third Eye Books and the Bodecker Foundation to present Hanif Abdurraqib in conversation with Kasey Anderson
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America
While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture’s most insightful critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the 1990s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with memoir. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jumpshot,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.”
There’s Always This Year is a classic Abdurraqib triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. It’s about basketball in the way They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us is about music and A Little Devil in America is about history—no matter the subject, Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is also a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant. Abdurraqib’s recent book, A Little Devil in America, was the winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His first full-length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us was named a book of the year by NPR, Esquire, BuzzFeed, O: The Oprah Magazine, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize finalist and was long-listed for the National Book Award. His second collection of poems, A Fortune for Your Disaster, won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.
This event is FREE and open to all ages but space is limited so reserve your seat now.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
The Break
Kaveh Akbar's poems appear recently in The New Yorker, New York Times, Paris Review, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. His newest book, Pilgrim Bell, will be published by Graywolf in 2021; he is also the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017). Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson Colleges.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
The Break
Kaveh Akbar's poems appear recently in The New Yorker, New York Times, Paris Review, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. His newest book, Pilgrim Bell, will be published by Graywolf in 2021; he is also the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017). Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson Colleges.
The Break
Kaveh Akbar's poems appear recently in The New Yorker, New York Times, Paris Review, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. His newest book, Pilgrim Bell, will be published by Graywolf in 2021; he is also the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017). Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson Colleges.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.