Named after the nefarious Inner Southeast neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, Buckman Publishing makes a twice-a-year anthology, Buckman Journal, alongside books of all genres. Sending scouts deep into the local literature and arts scene, Buckman finds the best to present. Delivered with grit and cunning design, the printed medium is very much alive in Buckman.
The Latest Efforts
A raucous concert in a stranger’s basement. People in the thick of a downtown Portland protest. A cat convention at the airport Holiday Inn. Choice Cuts by Corbin C dives into these local scenes and beyond. The book offers a lively montage of Portland, Oregon and its long-running traditions of hosting bands in homes and making space for the strange. Captured entirely with single-use disposable cameras, the photographs echo the DIY spirit of the communities they document.
Choice Cuts
Disposable Camera Archive 2015-2023
Buckman Journal: Trance
Let this anthology of Oregon writers and artists take you on an exploration through different hypnotizing, hilarious, and haunting aspects of trance.
The 14th issue of Buckman Journal is here! Join us Sunday July 13th 3-6pm to celebrate at the Mothership (1033 SE Main St. 97214, outside in the parking lot loading dock). Come mix and mingle with contributing artists and writers, Team Buck, and other local creatives. You can also get a sneak peek of the journal with this issue’s digital content—Off Starboard by Lilly Grey Rudge featuring artwork by Cori McCullough.
Featured artwork by: Hali Autumn, Sadé DuBoise, Alison Lutz, and Andrea Alonge.
Odd Guide to the Flowers of Portland
From Portland, Oregon, the land of botanical bounty, comes a never-before-seen interpretative take on identifying flowers. This experimental guide approaches flora at an abstract, even bizarre angle. Get acquainted with 60 species through odes, myths, field entries, and much more—all conjured by local poets and artists while walking all over our blossoming town.
Cornfry
What if the restraint isn’t so heavy? What then?
Hit the road, seek non-expected scenes, get an honest sense of place, then detail the moments with accurate vividity, recounting the action as alive as it was. That’s Cornfry.
This is Portland Deluxe Edition
Finally! A real dose of Portland, and who better to deliver it than some of the city’s most respected artists, writers, shakers and doers. A travel book can tell you where to eat and sleep, but This is Portland convey’s the city’s soul and spirit more faithfully than any other. Short stories. Essays. Comics. Poetry. Recipes. Photos. Painting. Tarot. Illustrations. Mixed Art. Presented in a GIANT paperback book (8.5 x 11 inches).
Contributors include Michelle Ruiz Keil (Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Finalist), Pace Taylor (New Yorker), Chris Stuck (Pushcart Prize winner, Amistad/HarperCollins), Scott Korb (New Yorker), Lauren Yoshiko (Broccoli), Erin Nations (Eisner and Ignatz nominated), and many, many more.
Artwork featured by: Erin Nations, Chris Nesseth, and Josh Gates.