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Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland writers Jessica E. Johnson and Kesha Ajose-Fisher for readings and conversation. Jessica E. Johnson's debut poetry collection is Metabolics, in which a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities, impulses, and relationships that are often in tension. Kesha Ajose-Fisher's Oregon Book Award-winning short story collection, No God Like the Mother, is newly reissued by Portland's own Forest Avenue Press.