A roundup of what the city’s been reading this month.

What to see at Portland’s repertory theaters.

The 51 poems span from gentrification to odes to a fraught relationship with alcohol.

Catch The Coffin’s monthly Italo disco party.

“Filthy and weird” novel “We Were the Universe” by Kimberly King Parsons takes top fiction honors.

An environmental drag show, a repair fair, making earth cool and more.

Places to bring your old mattresses, broken smartphones, piles of cardboard and more.

“This Is Vietnamese Portland” and “50 Years of Vietnamese Contributions to Oregon” open ahead of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

The show will run at the Siren Theater in early May.

Zero-waste refilleries, secondhand athletic-ware boutiques and more.

A contemporary ballet set to U2 songs will kick off the lineup in October.

Bar Hollywood honors the late director with film reel tables and a blue velvet seating area.

Biodynamic wine bars, regeneratively grown mushrooms, local CSAs and more.

“because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it)” uses clownery and postmodern art to ask for basic human respect.

The cultural staple is recognized as an Oregon Heritage Tradition.