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Portland, Oregon as told by local artists and writers. Run by Buckman Journal.
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Glacial Age (opens the original)
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Commentary and introduction by Rich PerinPoetry is way due a redo. At its best, it was brazen, adventurous, rough and ready, but now it seems to only exist safely behind walls of higher education. Go and sit next to ordinary folk on a bus and ask what poem they read today and, at best, they might recite an in-fashion hip hop artist.Outside of hip hop, poetry hasn’t kept up with the times. By not considering the various means of delivery available in this digitized age, a poet is not only limitin
Guidelines for Harmonious Singing (opens the original)
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by Hazel Peach ReederIf you talk to Ian Clemons, one of Portland’s premier instigators of sea shanty singalongs, he will make a key aesthetic distinction between this city and others. “If you move to New York, you should probably get a cocktail dress… if you move to </s
Molting Form (opens the original)
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Shed is a transitive verb; it must act on something. Shed light, shed skin, shed doubt. Again and again, I find myself most interested in works that shed form.Artistic form is a transitive element; it must contain something. If that content is human enough, sensory enough, it will naturally resist such containment. “It may be supposed that a little bit of formalism turns away from the material body subject to finitude, but radical formalism brutally, viciously, relentlessly, and movingly will br
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