Anastacia-Reneé, jamie mortara, and Emily Sieu Liebowitz are three PCNW poets whose work thrillingly reflects the problems and experiences of our modern age.
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Pop-Up Magazine Mashes Cross-Medium Storytellers into a Unique Night of Live Performance
Journalists, authors, filmmakers, animators and more collaborate with Pop-Up Magazine to create unique storytelling nights. You sort of have to be there to understand.
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Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin Review: A Thoughtful, Reverent Portrait of Portland’s Greatest Writer
“Science fiction is social fiction,” Warren Ellis said in a 2013 interview in The Paris Review. “It’s about using speculation as a tool with which to examine the contemporary condition.” Truer words. But even in 2018, when science fiction and fantasy have conquered popular entertainment, most genre creators still have to fight for recognition. “The […]
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W. Kamau Bell’s Insightful Sociopolitical Commentary Brings the House Down
JOHN NOWAK / CNN Time and time again, W. Kamau Bell’s traveling docuseries, United Shades of America, gives me a renewed sense of how not to be an ignorant piece of shit. Whether the topic is the colonization of Hawaii or the realities of what actually goes down at the US-Mexico border, I become better […]
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W. Kamau Bell’s Insightful Sociopolitical Commentary Brings the House Down
The extremely prolific comedian, writer, podcast host and TV star W. Kamau Bell educates as he entertains and audiences are better for it.
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Chelsea Cain’s Twitter Tricks and Man-Eaters Hints
BRYAN AULICK Two years ago, Mockingbird writer and longtime Portland mystery writer Chelsea Cain deleted her Twitter account. She’d faced a cycle of internet outrage that had nothing to do with alleged social justice warriors and everything to do with reactionary intolerance toward women makers and thinkers. (Just ask Anita Sarkeesian and Zoë Quinn.) The […]
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Mohamed Asem’s Revealing Memoir of Airport Detention
Asem Experiences Racism and Self-Reflection in Stranger In the Pen
In the new book from Perfect Day Publishing, Stranger In the Pen, Mohamed Asem makes the best of racist travel policies.
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Portland Author Patrick deWitt’s Wry, Dry French Exit
I’ll read every book Patrick deWitt writes. The Portland author now has four novels under his belt, and each one is wildly, satisfyingly different—from the boozy Bukowski blackouts of his first, Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, to the Charles Portis-informed comic western of his best, the phenomenal The Sisters Brothers; from the fractured fairy tale […]
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Katie Ford’s Heartbreaking Sonnets Strike a Chord
There’s a shadow looming over If You Have To Go—the poignantly-titled and brilliant collection of poetry from Katie Ford—and it’s the dissolution of Ford’s marriage. Each poem within the collection is either softly shaded by the event or completely subsumed in its darkness. She grasps for meaning in small objects, flickering moments of peace amidst […]
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Americans in Paris in Patrick deWitt’s Wry, Dry French Exit
The Portland Author Expands His Literary Purview to the Idle Rich
SUMMARY: The Portland author expands his literary purview to include the idle rich.
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Katie Ford’s Heartbreaking Sonnets Strike a Chord
The Looming Shadow of Divorce in Ford’s Latest If You Have To Go
Katie Ford’s latest collection of poems are haunted by the dissolution of her marriage.
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Why Did a Mother Throw Her Kids Off a Bridge?
In late spring of 2009, in the middle of the night, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped two of her children over the railing. They fell 75 feet into the Willamette River. The 7-year-old, Trinity, survived the fall (and more than half an hour in the cold river). The […]