The Latest Efforts:
Tears Are Everywhere
An art book for all ages about the crying we all have in common. Check out the book trailer, and get your copy here!
Winner of the American Illustration 45 Award and the Literary Titan Gold Book Award
“The minimalist artwork combines textured black-and-white pen lines with bright washes of color, creating pages that feel delightfully tactile yet restful. The deceptively simple poetic language invites readers to think beyond their everyday understanding of tears to how shared emotions and experiences connect us to one another and to the natural world around us.” —The Children’s Book Review
Annihilation for Beginners
A collection of 28 stories set across different terrains of Oregon, where creatures, ancient trees, and bodies of water offer solace and companionship to characters living in various aftermaths, all asking and answering the question of how to go on.
“These solid, beautiful stories break open like exquisite geodes. Populated by a spectrum of characters who find themselves in less-than-ideal situations and locations, Annihilation for Beginners shows us that beneath our rough exteriors, eroded by loss and longing, often lie hidden, tender interiors shaped by a desire to know ourselves and how we fit into the vast, unknowable world that surrounds us.” —Evan P. Schneider, author of Rural Education
“Stephens’s sensitivity to nature and the human condition is exactly what this world needs. These stories mesmerize and hold you, even when everything feels impossibly damp and socked in. You’ll laugh, cry, and emerge remembering that it isn’t so bad to be a human being—so full of hope and so full of wonder.” —Erin Steele, author of Sunrise over Half-Built Houses: Love, Longing and Addiction in Suburbia
This issue gathers over 30 Oregon artists and writers sharing their variations on shed. Inside: find yourself at a new blood horizon, go underground in the cabbage patch, meet a damaged dishwasher with a dream. Discover a mysteriously prolific backyard garden, then visit a patch of forest undergoing a unique sort of renewal. A paramedic offers an aftermath narration. A contemporary writer considers an ancient fairytale. The harbor town has gossip, and someone to look for it. The sacred tale of cardinal and a hen told in the form of sixteenth-century diary entries—inspired by a painting in the Portland Art Museum’s collection. All these stories and more, paired with portraits where mirror meets lens, ceramic structures and tomes, and photographs of artfully degraded urban surfaces, to name a few. All orders directly from Buckman will include additional print ephemera.
Ordering directly from Buckman guarantees a deluxe edition of the journal, which includes special extra ephemera with the first 250 orders.
Newest Issue!
Welcome to the cluster, y’all—where there are veins of syntax, nostalgia mists, and fifty different hands in front of you. Featuring nearly 40 local artists and writers, Buckman Journal: Cluster wrangles an array of talent into a multimedia cornucopia. On the cover: photography by Hannah Krafcik featuring dancers in bodily constellations. Inside the issue: take an illuminating trip to the zoo, look through the prism of a hardcore puzzler, attend an angel lynching, and witness a new way to make a modern popstar. Spill red wine at the solstice party, get hit on by a friend’s father, and inadvertently teach your kid to crack a joke. Meet newly minted comrades in intoxication, consider the earthly digestion, the haunted lineage, and a little envelope of thrumming.
Ordering directly from Buckman guarantees a deluxe edition of the journal, which includes special extra ephemera with the first 250 orders—like a mailable art postcard.
Make a profound chicken curry and smoke some really good weed in a saucy new story from Emme Lund. Become a student of The Process in fiction from Dan DeWeese. Then drive the glitchy memory highway, wait out an allergic cascade. Debate the great trances, stumble onto something in the school multipurpose room with your best friend Bev. Meet Honey Bee, a woo-woo Florida transplant, and a sock seeking love. Pay a visit to Dina’s diner, see what happens when autocorrect takes it too far. Paintings that refract the digital prism from Amy Turnbull. The arboretic ripples of Matt Sanchez. Let the shapes take you, the speckles that float, the floral vibrancy repeating. Trance told in tunnels of color, and in ectoplasmic greyscale, swamp and monarch silhouettes, the ornate head contortions, all-over magenta landscapes. Let this anthology of Oregon writers and artists take you on an exploration through different hypnotizing, hilarious, and haunting aspects of trance.
Ordering directly from Buckman guarantees a deluxe edition of the journal, which includes special extra ephemera with the first 250 orders—like an optical illusion card and mini zine of trancey poetry.