5 Literary Nonprofits We’re Thankful to Have in Portland

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Among all of Portland’s most celebrated features — our excellent coffee, our eclectic beers, our extra-eclectic coffee-infused beers — it’s the strong commitment to writing and literature that feels especially vital these days. The literary arts bring together the widening groups of people inhabiting our city, from the new to long-term residents, young and elderly, writers and readers from all backgrounds and histories. It’s Giving Tuesday today,…

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Personal and Politically Poignant: A Review of CutBank 88

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CutBank, the University of Montana’s biannual literary journal, features fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction by both established and emerging authors. The journal’s most recent edition, CutBank 88, exhibits a distinct Americanness in terms of place and identity. Like the characters in Courtney Graggett’s mythic story “Dry Border,” a father and son who are Mexican immigrants in southwest Texas, the readers of CutBank 88 also traverse the physical challenges and emotional complexities…

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Excerpts from Small Pieces by Micheline Aharonian Marcom, art by Fowzia Karimi

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In Winter, Again The orange-breasted robins are in the garden today for the second time in January. Dozens of them pushing up and flying out from the wild red berry bush to the tall redwood and back, roiling lifting the air as if the air were waves on the ocean and the bird movement stormwinds. Below the bird wings, closer to the ground, the air…

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Review of So Far So Good: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lasting Meditative Landscape

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After her death at the age of 88 earlier this year, Ursula K. Le Guin unleashed a wake of spirituality, meditation, reflection, and journey upon her readers with the release of her posthumous collection of poems So Far So Good (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). The poems lead the reader on a solitary journey by way of boat, through sunrises, sunsets, and vast hills. Though the…

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10 Themed Anthologies & Journals Seeking Submissions

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Did you miss the submission deadline for Portland Review’s themed anthology, Unchartable: On Environmental Unknowns? Or, are you looking for journals and anthologies accepting themed writing? Here is a list of ten journals we think you should consider as homes for your work: Puerto del Sol Theme: Absence Deadline: October 30, 2018 For details, click here. Indiana Review & Split Lip Magazine Theme: Collaboration Deadline:…

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