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Poems

Where We Begin: Two Poems

We All Remember (Cabin Kids) We all remember the running and playing how we cursed darkness and dinner bells, tumbling in at dusk’s very last moment before the sky winks the day goodbye catching your breath before the closed cabin door, waving goodbye and Johnny, an unassuming boy hollering have a good night! hands-sapped, knees-scraped, […]

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Poems

Dance of Petals and Other Poems

Dance of Petals These flowers coronal quivers of gold heavy headed they nod sweeping sway of yellow dancing white petaled wild spring meadow washes over me bouyant in a breezy field Birds of Spring It was soft, a purple shade lavender, lilac made of flowers warm, we breathed deep the inhale, swirling round sweet the […]

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Festival Film Poems

There is a lot of poetry in these films.

Cinema Project gives a fair shake to short film in Space Time Being at PIFF. On Tuesday night at Whitsell Auditorium, Cinema Project and Northwest Film Center co-presented Short Cuts VII: Space Time Being for the 39th Annual Portland International Film Festival. Six short films, not one of them exceeding 25 minutes by directors from […]

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Essay

Modernbody

Rethinking Happily Ever After After putting a good dent in my laundry pile, after making up the futon and folding quilts, after swiffering the linoleum, baby wipes on a cold, well-used kitchen floor, after sweeping out the foyer, splinterings of kindling and old oak leaves and dust billowing out the front of our house, I […]

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Humor Video

Este Does Not Make TV

Este Does Not Make a Movie premieres in Portland on January 20th at Clinton Street Theatre. Estevan and Nicholas Munoz join Sean Ongley for a look inside the reflection of the selves and the image of two young, groundbreaking filmmakers.