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Three Poems by Safa Hijazi
Submissions are open!
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…
Submissions Opening September 26
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…
Friday Night Videos
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…
Fast Food Haikus
“Don’t get above your raising.”— Karen Salyer McElmurray Water falls intothe deep fryer, tidalingtowards my shaking hands. Singed skin still serving,brown, sprawling splatters sink ineveryone has them. From drive-thru speakers,music caught inside the car,today, Chopin plays. We work like dancersgraceful folds and tucks, buns pinned,lettuce put to bed. To argue back isto slow down, to say your paindemands us to pause. I dare love this…