Prose, Poetry, and Art since 1956
— Benny Segalis was born in Jerusalem and attended the School of Arts at Washington University in St Louis, Parsons School of Art, The New School, and Chicago Art Institute. Her work was exhibited in San Francisco, Art Basel Miami, Melbourne, St. Louis, Chicago, Tel Aviv, New York, and Ein Hod. Ora Segalis works in many private collections, including in Australia, Switzerland, Mexico, Miami,…
We live along the lush-dry corridor, blocks up from the Train Mouth. After school, flouting rules, we walk Akela Road. Heat splits our nostrils. Dirt browns our undies. Dogs leer and nip. These are dry-boy and dry-girl problems not suffered on the lush side. Trains rumble through the Train Mouth, met by men with prods. Crates of goods discharged. A massive chainlink fence: thirty feet…
Portland Review has received a Literary Magazine Fund grant, awarded through the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) An inaugural fund provided through the Amazon Literary Partnership, the grant is offered in support of publications, both large and small-scale, who champion diverse voices and help sustain literary culture in their communities. As part of our ongoing mission of compensating contributors and building vital dialogue through…
cars unable to a line not moving eventually we get out and go on foot through the fields where tainted grass comes up and swallows our cars to their…
There, in someone’s front yard I saw a glass bowl, turned over on a hole, with a red-brown brick on top. In that airless chamber, a small swarm of desperate wasps swirled. I did nothing to end this small cruelty. I went on walking, not knowing what my business was. — WLS (Wendy Lee Spacek) earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University Bloomington….