Portland Review

Doing More with Less: A Look at New Hint Fiction

in Interviews/Reviews on May 23, 2018 April 21, 2025

In creating New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (forthcoming August, 2018), editors James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro combed through print and online journals, individual collections, and literary anthologies for short gems. All of the one hundred and forty stories included in this W. W. Norton & Company anthology are individually less than three hundred words. Though brief, these narratives are deep. In the anthology’s forward, Robert Shapard notes the length of stories has been…

What Is It That Lasts? by Paul Freidinger

in Poetry on May 7, 2018 April 21, 2025

A sliver of ice connects us and evaporates, / fades, becomes forgotten, / erased, / until one day no one will believe / the world was covered by frozen / mountain ranges

On Issue One: Revisiting Portland Review’s First Edition

in News on May 4, 2018 April 21, 2025

A look back at Portland Review’s very first issue and the uncanny ways it parallels the work we do today to make the journal a platform for meaningful poetry, prose, and art.

Portland Review’s Spring 2018 Reading at the IPRC

in News on May 1, 2018 April 21, 2025

Join us as we celebrate several amazing local authors on Friday, May 18 from 7-9 pmat the Independent Publishing Resource Center, one of Portland’s coziest venues. The event will feature readings by Margaret Malone, Santi Elijah Holley, and Susan DeFreitas and is sure to be an evening of sumptuous words and gripping prose. There will be an optional but suggested donation at the door. Copies of…

Marseille Hunger by Christopher X. Shade

in Fiction on April 30, 2018 April 21, 2025

It’s not the boy who arrests me, it’s the man I recognize above the boy, a man on a balcony who’s dropping a wet skirt to dry over the steel rail of it, and a blouse, and a towel, and other laundry, and then blue sheets.