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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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ILLUSTRATION AND  POEM  BY JEN SCHOLTEN Surf & water can as water can’t alone; film a languid layer on this tired white bone under lying milkskin, overgrown and riddled with existence. Reminisce of comfort calling, but it’s not in this bath. Not this one. Skin shame is the same everywhere. None of us want to […]

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For Belle

Jen Coleman is author of “Psalms for Dogs and Sorcerers” (Trembling Pillow Press) which was selected by poet Dara Wier for the 2013 Bob Kaufman book prize. Jen’s next volume of poems is forthcoming from Furniture Press. She lives in Portland, OR and is a member of the Spare Room reading collective. For Belle The […]

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Transfixed by Night Skies

A collection of poems turning our attention to the night sky. Of stars Winter, the amber fire of ashen woods, we burned wet the smolder of mire the water and the fire dark ancestress home nights, moon shivering, cold stars fixed or falling beyond the skies fiery yields only dying embers lost in oblivion’s field […]