As I make the transition away from Portland Review and toward my thesis work for the MFA program, I’m thinking about how I got to Portland and why I’m grateful to be here. It’s wild to think that I’m here today due to some strange combination of hearsay about Portland, the whims of a particular FedEx employee, and the kindness of my faculty in not…
The Wrath of God
A reprint of The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake was released in 2002 with an additional afterward by House of Sand and Fog author Andre Dubus III, who claims Pancake as a great influence. Additionally, the University of Tennessee Press put out A Room Forever: The Life, Work, Letters Of Breece D’J Pancake, by Thomas E. Douglas in 2004.
Betrothal of the Virgins
This artwork appears in our Fall 2013 issue (Vol. 60.1)
Precocious Slow
An excerpt… My mother made love to her mirror, twice a day, morning and evening, every day of her life. Before bedtime, this involved the soft, slow strokes of her fingertips across her face and neck, always caressing upwards in a circular motion that stimulated the nerves and capillaries. “Gravity is a thing to fight,” she said. “Early and without mercy.” My mother attacked aging…
Winter 2013 Call For Submissions
Attention Poets! Artists! Writers! Portland Review is now reading for our Winter 2013 issue. This issue will focus primarily on poetry, artwork, flash-fiction, and flash nonfiction fitting the theme of “honoring the past.” This will be our feature issue for both poetry and artwork. We’re hoping to additionally run a series of broadsides showcasing some of this work. While the central focus of the issue…