From Bill Clinton to Nabokov, National Book Award-winning poet Mary Szybist explores the space between.
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Pitch Black
Portland’s Black Cake Records meld words with sound.
Running Up That Hill
Love, death, and adulthood on Boyfriend Mountain.
State of Emergency
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen should win the National Book Award.
Poets Society
Digging into new work from Patricia Lockwood and Emily Kendal Frey.
On Horses and Bird Bones
A darkly absurd new book from Portland poet Zachary Schomburg.
Under Glass
Poet Willa Schneberg shares artifacts from her life.
Poetry and Motion
Lexicon Polaroid brings poetry and video to its Reading Frenzy release party.
Star Trek, Poetry, and the Human Condition
Tom Blood’s The Raccoon grounds the human condition in pop culture.
Poetry vs. Money
In the midst of $27 million cuts, why is TriMet swapping ad space for poetry?
Parsing Poetry
In The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker is like the poetry professor you wish you’d had.
