The Lovely Archives

  After 6 1/2 years and 1510 posts, The Lovely Arc has grown a bit tired in this space. Instead, adjust yr knobs, and follow it over he...

If you're interested in a sneak peek of a forthcoming book of poems, Fjords , you should check out these new issues of Lumina , Tin Ho...

Thank you, Ryan Donaldson, for your article about the Bad Blood Reading Series in the last Portland Monthly .

Bad Blood #6 is on its way, next Saturday, June 4. Graham Foust, Emily Kendal Frey, and John Niekrasz. Work/Sound. 820 SE Alder. 7pm mingle...

Picked up my summer fiction reading list at Powell's today: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabok...

Some new books are coming your way, July 1. Everything is going to be ok.

Dear Portland, next Thursday: Joshua Beckman, Anthony McCann, and Jamalieh Haley at Bad Blood 5. It's kind of a big deal.

I'm telling a true story about my misfitness on the Back Fence PDX stage at the Mission Theater on Thursday, May 26. I'll be on...

A preview of the first issue of a new poetry journal, iO , has a poem of mine called "Tiny Castles" stuck in it.

Dear poets, you have through the weekend to submit your full-length poetry manuscripts to the Octopus Books' April open reading period ....

All dressed up, but no award to accept. I even wore my lucky skeleton gloves to the event. Alas! Congratulations to David Biespiel for w...

I'm leading a workshop at the Nebraska Summer Writer's Conference on June 11th and 12th. It is going to be hot. Meet me in th...

  Today is the last day of voting for the Oregon Readers' Choice Award. The polls close at 5pm. Maybe you'd want to go here and cas...

Bad Blood #4 , starring poets Joe Wenderoth and Tony Tost, and music from Danielle Sullivan & Kyle Morton, will go down at Crema, af...

I've been asked to contribute a poem to Hannah , an anthology of collaborations between painters and poets. Here is a current pre-p...

Portland's own Typhoon is having a record release party for A New Kind of House , released last month on Tender Loving Empire . My poem...

John Cotner wrote a piece about the chapbook fair last month for Bookslut. He failed to mention how Nat Otting kept punching himself i...

The postminimalist composer, Eve Beglarian , will perform "Testy Pony," a piece that she has arranged to my poem of the same name ...