Posts tagged Nonfiction

Acadian Armor

in Nonfiction Prose, Poetry, and Art Uncategorized Winter 2024 on April 14, 2024 March 26, 2024

1 Childless and widowed, I slide into bed like a bug that scuttles away to escape getting stomped. I am not a bug but I am flattened. By loneliness, worry, missing my boy, now grown….

Addendum: Nala-e-bebak

in Nonfiction Prose, Poetry, and Art Winter 2024 on March 3, 2024 March 18, 2024

In Urdu, there exists a phrase—nala-e-bebak: an audacious sorrow. 2007: When my grandmother died, she turned into a parrot. An obscure ritual was performed to determine what type of body she would be reborn in…

Cherubino

in Fall 2023 Nonfiction on October 8, 2023 September 26, 2023

I. I hear a change in their breathing and I do not look around but keep my eyes on the screen upon which the opera Le Nozze di Figaro plays, Marianne Crebassa as Cherubino singing…

TV People

in Fall 2023 Nonfiction on October 1, 2023 September 26, 2023

We bought a television, Gabe and I, a few days ago. It’s the first TV we’ve owned as a couple, a shocking and disturbing development. When we moved in together six months ago, it was…

Call for Submissions 2023

in Blog Fall 2023 News on September 27, 2023 October 10, 2023

Portland Review is now open for submissions in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction. The window for submission will be open from September, 27th to October 20, 2023. We will close the submission for the genre if…