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Floating World Comics announced Friday that it will move from Old Town Chinatown to a burgeoning arts district being created by indie businesses in Lloyd Center mall.
Matthew Dickman’s fourth poetry collection explores devoted domesticity and a painful breakup that precipitated his newfound world of single parenthood.
Lidia Yuknavitch (left), the cover of her new novel Thrust (right) Andy MIngo and Michael Connors If anyone has been instrumental in keeping literary Portland weird, itโs Lidia Yuknavitch. From her bestselling books to her much-written-about writerโs group with local literary darlings Cheryl Strayed, Chuck Palahniuk, and Chelsea Cain, to her quirky, indescribable writing center […]
A visual rendering of one of two planned outdoor terraces. Renderings courtesy of Hennebery Eddy Architects Come late summer, back-to-schoolers will want to note the closure of a favorite downtown study spot. Starting in August, Multnomah County Library (MCL)’s Central branch will close to the public for three months to allow for several concurrent construction […]
Courtesy of University of Oklahoma Press Mark O. Hatfield is one of the most significant politicians in Oregonโs history. He held office in the Oregon state legislature, spent two terms as governor, and had a thirty-year stint as Oregonโs US senator. His career isโin factโfascinating for anyone interested in Oregon history, or broader American political […]
Anis Mojgani courtesy of Oregon Cultural Trust Oregon has a really cool poet laureate. And now we get to benefit from a second two-year term of Anis Mojgani’s creative and kind advocacy for poetry and the humanities. On Wednesday, Gov. Brown extended Mojgani’s term as Oregon Poet Laureate through 2024. Brown lauded Mojgani’s efforts to […]
Tavia Morra, courtesy of ak press Speculating about how the US will crack apart is a cottage industry for sci-fi authors and political commentators. Ernest Callenbach did it in 1975 with Ecotopia, a novel about the Pacific Northwest seceding from the rest of the country. In 1981, journalist Joel Garreau argued that the US was […]
Drawing by Christina Tran, COPYRIGHT PSU 2021 In our 2022 Spring Arts Guide, Mercury critic Joe Streckert profiled a popular Portland State University (PSU) comics project called Changing the Narrative, which collected ten stories about homelessness, and what it means to cope with food and housing insecurity. Printed as an 80-page full color comic, Changing […]
Rajneeshees line up outside of a building in the 1980s. The movement created upheaval in the sleepy town of Antelope, which they renamed Rajneesh. Courtesy of Oregon Historical Society Any current work about Rajneeshpuramโthe cult that operated out of Wasco County, Oregon in the ’80sโ lives in the shadow of Netflixโs 2018 documentary series Wild […]
Qvasimodo For those of you who read competitively, you may commence licking your page-turners. Literary Arts has announced the 2022 Portland Book Awards finalists, and the crop is looking mighty. The poetry selection is particularly poppin’ with Portland favorites Emily Kendal Frey, Zachary Schomburg, and Dao Strom as three of the five finalists. It’s nice […]
Changing the Narrative visually tells the stories of those who have been homeless and/or experienced food and housing insecurities. ARTIST ARANTZA PENฬA POPO, COPYRIGHT PSU 2021 Portland State University instructor Kacy McKinney has used comics to teach in her classroom, written about them academically, and made them herself. Now she’s bringing local organizations together with […]
Stacy Brewsterโs debut collection, What We Pick Up, is out now. Buckman Publishing Stacy Brewsterโs debut collection, What We Pick Up, spans space and time. The stories take place everywhere from rural Oregon to Los Angeles, New York, and Portland, and occur between the 1930s and present day. The collection centers queer characters dealing with […]
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