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Apr

10

2018

Smoke City

Smoke and Wonders: Latest from Portlanders
Keith Rosson and Matthew Dickman

A surreal journey across the ages, a mind-bending road trip. In his September 2017 essay, “Study the Executioner,” for NWBookLovers.org, Portland author and artist Keith Rosson talked of how history, as a subject of interest, was largely lost on his youthful version. “Droll. Too large in its scope and breadth to really grasp.” But something changed …

Aug

21

2012

3

remarks

Amanda Coplin

‘Shining the Light on Somewhere New:’
an Interview with Amanda Coplin

Amanda Coplin was born in Wenatchee, Washington. She received her BA from the University of Oregon and her MFA from the University of Minnesota. A recipient of residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Omi International Arts Center at Ledig House in Ghent, New York, she lives in Portland, Oregon. …

Jun

20

2012

Laux’s American Life in Poetry

Dorianne Laux’s “Family Stories” from her 2000 collection Smoke is this week’s American Life in Poetry featured poem. Laux traded her University of Oregon duck pond for the North Carolina State University wolfpack in 2008, but is currently back in Oregon as part of her MFA teaching gig at Pacific University. She’s the author of five …

Jan

7

2011

All-American Poem by Matthew Dickman

“We are lucky to live in the same town as Matthew Dickman. Talented poet and reader. Funny and insightful and sometimes tangenting strangely. I loved most of these poems.”—Matt, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland

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