— Here’s a poem dark with fingerprints, all the fingerprints that touched the paper it’s on and made the machines that took the pulp that had once been wood held by gloves with secret…
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For over sixty years, Portland Review has been supported by contributions from writers, editors, readers, and advocates of the literary arts. The journal is produced by the graduate students in the English Department at Portland State University, which is a nonprofit public institute.
Typographical Sentences
— Geometrical regularity and a line full of nudes and an alphabet we could dance to and come together oh why don’t you come on one two three one two three. It’s rhythmic, the…
Bird Poem by Alicia Salvadeo
Bird Poem by Alicia Salvadeo It always begins with a dumb little bird: Keats under plums, Whitman on the beach, Williams at his window eyeing trees, the sun rising a minute later than…
Jantzen Beach
— I am Tonya Harding before she invented rollerskates. When she can’t find a thing worth buying, I look for twice as long. You are not my husband. Your arms blunt their violence in…
sonnet during drought by Alicia Salvadeo
— the Tibetan landlady and i ought to concede our brown fingers. she can’t grow tomato plants, hydrangea; i, no hope for pothos, Pittsburgh ivy, aloe; basil leaves, see-through. her son babbles all summer in…