Colleen combines dub music and baroque instruments.
Joshua James Amberson
Joshua James Amberson's work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Tin House, among others. He's the author of the chapbook Everyday Mythologies on Two Plum Press, and he's currently working on a young adult novel about memory loss and a collection of essays about eyeballs.
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Portland’s Black Cake Records Meld Text with Art and Sound
Black Cake Records Zachary Schomburg collaborates with Typhoon guitarist Kyle Morton on an album of dreamy poetic soundscapes. Bianca Stone turns her poems into Diane Cluck-esque folk songs. Dot Devota juxtaposes sound collage from Ferguson protests with collaborations from travels in Taiwan. Sampson Starkweather and Brandon Shimoda collaborate with poets and musicians. Jon-Michael Frank shouts […]
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Pitch Black
Portland’s Black Cake Records Turn Writing into Sound Art
Portland’s Black Cake Records meld words with sound.
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Dear Diary
Sarah Manguso Ends Her 25-Year Affair
Sarah Manguso ends her 25-year affair.
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Fightin’ Words
David Shields’ New Book Takes on Discord, Or Does It?
David Shields and Caleb Powell quarrel in their new book—or that’s what they say.
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Running Up That Hill: Love and Death on Boyfriend Mountain
Poor Claudia “THINK HARD about the last time/you said you were in love/without simultaneously thinking about death.” So begins a Kelly Schirmann poem from Boyfriend Mountain, the second collaborative poetry book by Schirmann and Tyler Brewington, out this month from Portland’s Poor Claudia. Boyfriend Mountain is a book where falling in love also means confronting […]
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Running Up That Hill
Love and Death on Boyfriend Mountain
Love, death, and adulthood on Boyfriend Mountain.
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Subterranean Pop
Bruce Pavitt’s Notes from the (Music) Underground
Before Sub Pop was a label, it was Bruce Pavitt’s underground manifesto.
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From Hiphop to House
Don’t Think About Rap Class—Just Have a Good Time
Don’t think about Rap Class. Just have a good time.
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The Other Side of the Mirror
Ruby Fray’s Realized Potential
Ruby Fray realizes its potential.
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Dreamed-Up Dynasty
Lenae Day Makes Hollywood History
Lenae Day creates and stars in revisionist Hollywood history.
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Housing Hyperbole
Portland Poet Thomas Mowe Lies to His Friends
Thomas Mowe’s first poetry collection is a hyperbolic epistle to a friend.