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Album Bracketology 2020
By Matthew Kauffman Smith
In the midst of a global pandemic and economic meltdown, Matthew Kauffman Smith writes an “album tournament” no one wants.
Always Singing, Always Writing Poems
By Patrick McGinty
In stories and poems, Alex Gallo-Brown explores labor in the twenty-first century.
one time is no time
A poem from sundaey by Kirsten Ihns.
Join Us February 28 at Mother Foucault’s for a “sundaey” Book Launch
We’ll celebrate Kirsten Ihns’s debut poetry collection Friday, February 28, at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop in Portland.
Jaws on the Beach
By Leslie Doyle
A shark, a whale, and men who chase them via “dead reckoning.”
Comedy as Coping Mechanism
By Alex Behr
Leland Cheuk talks about No Good Very Bad Asian, his novel about the life of a Chinese American star.
Reading for Pleasure for Search Engines
By Matthew Hein
Trying to Get Back into Reading Books? Secret tips and how-to hints from an expert.
Propeller to publish "sundaey," debut poetry collection by Kirsten Ihns
By Propeller
On February 25, 2020, Propeller Books will release its latest title: sundaey, the debut poetry collection by Kirstin Ihns.
Blade Runner Now Watches Us From the Past
By Dan DeWeese
In Blade Runner, eyes reveal the plot is not the story.
What is Illuminated and What is Shadowed
By Benjamin Craig
Emily Dickinson, salvation, and The Lighthouse.
Boom
By Michael Flanagan
It started late on a Saturday, a summer evening in August, the terrible strikes, if that’s what they were, beginning sometime after nine o’clock.
Propeller Decade: Bernhardt, Bergland, Harris, Quinn Talk Poetry Thursday Evening
By Propeller
Propeller celebrates its tenth anniversary with a series of events. On November 21st, Propeller Poetry Editor Lucas Bernhardt chats with poets Daneen Bergland, Ally Harris, and Harper Quinn at Rocking Frog Cafe in Portland.
Inside the Civility Cage
By Patrick McGinty
There is nothing multi-faceted about Keith Burris’s singular mission: to shove the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s editorial page to the ideological right at the behest of John Robinson Block, the Trump-fascinated owner of Block Communications.
Writing Angry, Writing Anger
By Matthew Robinson
Matthew Robinson shifted anger out of his life and into his fiction.
There is a Light That Never Goes Out
By Wendy Bourgeois
Sex, death, and lines from Philip Larkin.
Looking Back, Mortified
By Alex Behr
Why would we betray our younger self?
Propeller Decade: Bourgeois, Behr, Robinson, Schneider Agree to Argue in Public Thursday Evening
By Propeller
Propeller celebrates its tenth anniversary with a series of events. First up: on November 7th, a reading and discussion from Propeller writers on writing about personal experience.
Whitman, Illuminated
By Wendy Bourgeois
On an edition primarily interested in the more spiritual, less embodied aspects of Whitman.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Denies Its Loving Son
By Matthew Kauffman Smith
When compared to current and future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members, Weird Al Yankovic's résumé stacks up. So why isn’t he in?