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
Tears Are Everywhere
An art book for all ages about the crying we all have in common.
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. Single parents invent their own habitats of home, others reckon with the reality of who their children are turning out to be, and young people outgrow innocence and create their own philosophies of survival. The first story collection from award-winning novelist Charlie J. Stephens, Annihilation for Beginners dauntlessly explores wildernesses within and without.
Buckman Journal: Cluster
You’ve never seen clusters like this: human sardining gets out of hand. The toothy doorknob. The memory in fat. The writer is a surgeon is a writer. Aggregates of thread, seeds, offerings.
A woman practices professional detachment. A feather is sent through the mail. A classic protest chant gets an update. The infrastructure for the urban lions. The earth’s appetite. The girl group. The arteries. All these assemblies and more.
Artwork featured (clockwise): Jo Hamilton, Rachel Warkentin, Torea Frey, Ari Albertson, and Dan Gluibizzi.
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
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.
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 (from left to right): Erin Nations, Chris Nesseth, and Josh Gates.