BY LEANNE GRABEL click the first image below to open in gallery view Leanne Grabel is a special education and language arts teacher for Portland Public Schools, as well as a performing poet and co-founder of Portland’s legendary poetry cafe, Cafe Lena. Grabel has procured numerous multi-media arts grants over the years to produce spoken-word-based … Continue reading
BY JESSY RANDALL Please click the first image below to view a gallery of Randall’s graphic poems. Jessy Randall’s poems, comics, and other things have appeared in McSweeney’s, Poetry (forthcoming), and Rattle. Her most recent book is Suicide Hotline Hold Music, a collection of poems and comics. She is a librarian at Colorado College … Continue reading
BY CESCA WATERFIELD 1. A Late Romance Tex was late to this life he led. In the nightclubs and storefronts of central Los Angeles in the 1980s, he had come to doubt good women exist. After the imbroglio of a failed marriage, the prodigal repaired to Richmond where his talent for courtship and commerce were … Continue reading
