Prose, Poetry, and Art since 1956
Where we stood scared across the highwayfrom the drawn-down lake, my friendhad seen ghosts stepping out of firs. “Bad placeto camp,” you’d said. Told us it was my fly rodthat made you pull over. “Those cliffs are whereall the kids jumped to escape. In the old time. Whenthat lake was still a river.” New little fires on the endsof cedars, you said your son was…
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Portland Review is now accepting submissions in all genres. Please send us your poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and genre-bending work. The window for submission will close on Monday, November 3, but we may close the submission for a genre early if we reach our cap before the official closing date. At Portland Review, we are looking for writing that is willing to push boundaries…
Beginning Friday, September 26, Portland Review will be open for submissions in Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Book Reviews. The window for submission will close on Monday, November 3, but we may close the submission for a genre early if we reach our cap before the official closing date. At Portland Review, we are looking for submissions (stories, essays, poems, and genre hybrids) that are willing…
Everything I know about music I learned from Jimmy Ray Casey. He had a perm, and a mustache, and wore cut-off jeans just like Daisy Duke. It was the British Motor Repair that brought us Jimmy Ray. My daddy ordered all the parts for his shop from a place in Birmingham back when you had to call them up on the phone and then pay…