Portland Review Receives 2019 Literary Magazine Fund Grant

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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…

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At the Corner of 6th and Pine by WLS

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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….

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SOMA: Bloody Mouth by Yunkyo Moon Kim

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Bloody Mouth, You immure me. Mouth is holding an ocean of blood. Seething with jealousy, I tuck the tropical fishes and tinfoil seaweeds safely into cheek to taste saltwater without casualty. I am swollen with wisdom, though I am a celibate. I am told that I am. Venus nurtured from foam and molar from a man’s apparatus ascended to dismal immortality — I am sulfuric…

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Northern Atlantic: Poetry and Photos by Romane Bladou

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the futility of geography                     the distances that write themselves and                   the drifting belongings if I am not one or the other, maybe I am in the middle citizen of the Northern Atlantic                     of the Celtic seas and             the Arctic waters I found shelter on a slippery rock a word that sounds familiar in this language that I do not understand that is spoken…

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