THRU Magazine Archive
Illustration and short story by Jen Scholten I fell into a pool when I was young, as I fell into so many bodies of water in my youth. I was born on the water too, like you, Lidia, except I can’t reflect on a moment of your literal near drowning — I don’t remember you writing […]
How we trade truth for belief for money Home is where the heart is, so you’re never really homeless. This cliche might be mustered up by some average passerby, one whose heart is not frozen by the coldness of economic analysis. It implies at least that he or she is reassuring someone that life is […]
A compilation of image and text by Portland-based poet, Brandi Katherine Herrera. It is a lyrical response to the death of her sister on 10/13/1984, now thirty-one years ago. I experienced Brandi Katherine Herrera’s poetry for the first time at Poetry Press week in December, 2014. Portions of DYING ONE IN TIME, Herrera’s manuscript and […]
How the soul moves It must be a tricky business it lingers, hovers stealthily an invisible silence a swift inhabitation the soul awaits to startle the body In wordless voice it moves from room to room turning lights on spends a lifetime ever longing to be heard In other countries Somewhere in a dream in […]
The Portland Thorns played their last home game for 2015 to a sold-out arena. Two hours before a Thorn’s or Timber’s game, the national anthem is rehearsed at Providence Park. I live three blocks from the field, perched just above it I can hear the singer’s voice lifting from the bowl of the stadium, joining the max train whistle […]