Everything I knew about Portland I learned from two main sources: my best friend who lived here at the time (and has since moved to Florida) and the TV show Portlandia. My friend said the…
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Like a Poet in a Candy Shop
As I make the transition away from Portland Review and toward my thesis work for the MFA program, I’m thinking about how I got to Portland and why I’m grateful to be here. It’s wild…
Winter 2013 Call For Submissions
Attention Poets! Artists! Writers! Portland Review is now reading for our Winter 2013 issue. This issue will focus primarily on poetry, artwork, flash-fiction, and flash nonfiction fitting the theme of “honoring the past.” This will…
Finishing the Writer’s To-Do List
My to-do list goes something like this: #1 Wash the dishes. #2 Clean the litter box. #3 Write my final paper. #4 Publish 100 amazing books, and be the best writer ever. #5 Live happily…
Provocations Writ Large
Back in 2008 when I breastfed my first-born, my son (didn’t I do it right, god, empire, mom and dad, giving the firsts to the boy); when I was breastfeeding Jake, I found this natural…