The Black Portlanders’ Intisar Abioto gets her due at Duplex Gallery.
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Out of Tumblr and Onto the Wall
Intisar Abioto’s Signature Portraits Get Their Due at Duplex Gallery
Megan Burbank
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More Bridgetown Details Announced: Lance Bangs! Jessica Williams! Meditation with Laura House!
UPDATE: You can now see the whole updated lineup and schedule here. As the Bridgetown Comedy Fest lineup grows and grows, we have more and more opportunities to want May to be here. RIGHT. NOW. Here are some early highlights from the latest update from the powers that be at Bridgetown: An Evening with Dr. […]
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Justin Hocking, Emily Kendal Frey, and Cari Luna Among Oregon Book Award Winners
Graywolf Press The winners of this year’s Oregon Book Awards were announced at a fancy-pants ceremony yesterday, and a whole slew of Portland writers were among them. A few highlights from the giant list: Justin Hocking, former director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center, won in the creative nonfiction category for the (great) Great Floodgates […]
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Art House: Tending Home at Surplus Space
Surplus Space From Tending Home. With a premium on Portland housing, many alternative arts spaces have closed their doors, but Surplus Space, on NE 7th, isn’t one of them. It’s a proudly alternative exhibition space housed in an actual house, with projects in the works to assist other alternative spaces throughout the city—something increasingly necessary […]
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Portland-Based Tin House Lauded for Gender Parity in Publishing, Other Magazines Struggle to Keep Up
2014 VIDA Count FOR SHAME, THE NATION. For. Shame. I’m writing this post from an airplane headed to one of the biggest bookfairs in the country—the beautiful spread put out yearly by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). One of the best things about AWP is that around this time, VIDA: Women in […]
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This Week in Art: Tennessee Williams, Nikki Glaser on Taylor Swift, and First Friday Maybe Isn’t a Thing
NIKKI GLASER: Fan of Taylor Swift, dream best friend. Nikki Glaser—As if we couldn’t adore the delightful stand-up any more than we already do, she opened up to Courtney Ferguson about her love for Taylor Swift. “I can’t stop listening to Taylor Swift’s 1989,” she told Courtney. “I feel like she writes for me. I […]
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Fugitive Dreams
From Portland’s Walidah Imarisha, a New Vision for Science Fiction, Social Justice, and the Future
From Portland’s Walidah Imarisha, a new vision for science fiction, social justice, and the future.
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Fugue States
Shaking the Tree Takes on Tennessee Williams
Shaking the Tree takes on Tennessee Williams.
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Walidah Imarisha: A New Vision for Science Fiction, Social Justice, and the Future
Photo: Aaron Lee “I HAVE ALWAYS been into superheroes and comic books,” says Walidah Imarisha when we meet up at Coffeehouse-Five on N Killingsworth. Perhaps best known for her writing (everything from poetry to criticism), teaching (at Portland State University), and her public scholarship on race in Oregon, Imarisha’s now putting a social justice lens […]
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There’s a New Curator in Town: Disjecta’s Chiara Giovando
Chiara Giovando From SMASHISIM, a show curated by Chiara Giovando at Human Resources LA. Yesterday, Disjecta announced their latest curator-in-residence, and it’s Chiara Giovando, formerly of Los Angeles’ Human Resources. It’ll be interesting to see what the LA-based Giavondo does as she fills the position left by Rachel Adams, who showed huge range as a […]
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Here’s Your Spring/Summer Poetry Press Week Lineup
Poetry Press Week For its spring/summer iteration, the crazy poetry lovers at Poetry Press Week put out an open call for local writers to submit work for a Fashion Week-inspired staging at the festival June 19-20. Judges Zachary Schomburg and Samiya Bashir selected writer/musician Timmy Straw and Zachary Cosby, one half of Bone Tax Press. […]
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Against Parenting: Meghan Daum Anthology Needs More Meghan Daum
Picador SPOILER ALERT: No one in this book has kids. Meghan Daum’s a sharp-edged contarian who writes gloriously spare prose, so I’ll read anything she touches. After I devoured The Unspeakable, I had no choice but to read her newly released anthology, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, […]