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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.
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Buckman Journal 016: Shed
Inside this issue you’ll find cross-sections of memory, a matter-of-fact modern fable, and a patch of forest so vacant that even a solitude-loving park ranger gets scared. An aspiring novelist goes to the opera, a citizen in a city of artists considers (im)mortality, and a photographer documents a complex farewell. Buckman Journal: Shed will introduce you to Dishwisher, show you the glory of the Library of God, let you become the gaze and the reflector.
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By Kira Lynn Cain
Existing within its own teary universe, Tears Are Everywhere offers the concision of a children’s book, the visual and tactile pleasures of a monograph, and the interpretative contemplation of abstract art, all in one hardcover volume written and illustrated by artist and author Kira Lynn Cain. Immersive and minimal at once, Tears is a textural story, an invitation to a curious world, and an art book for all ages. Cain uses distinct mark-making and poetic language to share a new concept of what tears might be. This book, while informed by philosophy and contemporary art, takes its own idiosyncratic approach to tears, proving their ubiquity and tender power.
RIYL: Edward Gorey, Yoko Ono, crying at museums
The regular version includes one copy of the book. The deluxe version includes a copy of the book bundled with the accompanying vinyl EP of instrumental music composed and performed by Cain. It is a seven-inch blue record in a plain sleeve featuring approximately nine minutes of music. Also includes a bookmark and a sticker. This is a small run limited to 100 copies.
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Tears are Everywhere by Kira Lynn Cain
Told in only 91 words and fourteen spacious art spreads, Tears Are Everywhere is truly multimodal, attending to the interplay between text and image with care and nuance. In this debut book, artist Kira Lynn Cain works in the tradition of new and hybrid genres and uses a unique blend of lyrical language, graphite, and watercolor to show us that, as Virgil wrote, “There are tears at the heart of things.” RIYL: Edward Gorey, Yoko Ono, crying at museums.
The regular version includes one copy of the book. The deluxe version includes a copy of the book bundled with the accompanying vinyl EP of instrumental music composed and performed by Cain. It is a seven-inch blue record in a plain sleeve featuring approximately nine minutes of music.
Regular $25.00 | Deluxe $40.00
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by Charlie J. Stephens
The debut story collection from Oregon Book Award finalist Charlie J. Stephens, Annihilation for Beginners, generously explicates Jean-Paul Sartre’s missive that “life begins on the other side of despair.” In 28 short stories, including a supernatural small-town mystery, a multigenerational family drama, and a maternal love story, the book considers what secular hope in the Anthropocene might look like. A child finds affinity with mollusks, a couple takes experimental drugs at the cemetery, a reptile-averse mother lets her son adopt a snake, and aging queer activists seek divinity. These are stories that ask: how strong is the tether keeping us here? How does the certainty of death animate our lives? Throughout the many microclimates of Oregon, the collection navigates themes of belonging, connection, the constructs of gender, and how adults and children understand one another. These stories are full of families trying to be families, and people in all phases of life reckoning with their reasons for living. With scenery and interiority that echo each other, and characters that read Camus, Fanon, and De Beauvoir, Annihilation for Beginners is slyly philosophical and darkly funny at every turn.
RIYL: Ocean Vuong, Hanya Yanagihara, queer ecology
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Annihilation for Beginners by Charlie J. Stephens
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. RIYL: Ocean Vuong, Hanya Yanagihara, Queer Ecology
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.
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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.
By Corbin C
Portland, Oregon is known for its DIY spirit, dedicated local music scenes, and anachronistic hobbies, all of which are represented in Choice Cuts, a photography book by Portland fixture, Corbin C. Choice Cuts presents a selection of photographs from the last decade, all caught on 35mm disposable cameras. Though focused on the vibrant house show subculture, Corbin brings his camera everywhere, and his archive also includes imagery of street demonstrations and protests, regional wrestling circuits, and something called CornCon. Informal, entertaining, and highly specific commentary accompanies the photographs and shows off Corbin’s pure enthusiasm and meticulous recall of nearly every event he’s photographed. Taken in basements and backyards and sidewalks starting in 2015, the photographs tell a story of a city that, while transforming, also has an unwavering dedication to performance, experimentation, and to showing up. Portland’s local culture is one of creative communities and Corbin has assembled proof of this. In this wildly digital time, Corbin and his lo-fi camera make a strong case for the analog, both in what’s happening and how it's captured. Here’s your invite, let Choice Cuts show you that the IRL is still alive and kicking.
RIYL: CJ Harvey, SLC Punk!, moshing
“Choice Cuts: Disposable Camera Archive is a vital cultural document from one of Portland’s most devoted artists. In basements and backyards, at raves, protests, and queer house shows, Corbin’s sweaty, luminous photographs capture the chaos and beauty of a subculture few outsiders will ever see. Of such a niche scene, you’ll often hear, “You had to be there,” but this collection invites us in, shows us what it feels like to be knee-deep at CornCon. Corbin’s faithful, archive pulses with intimacy, belonging, and sound. Featuring early career images of now-acclaimed artists like Fabi Reyna, Amenta Abioto, Sarah Turner, and Sage Fisher, this book is an archive built on deep trust, access, and care. Thanks to Corbin’s eye, these nights and these artists are immortal.” —Liam Whitworth, founder of Future Prairie
Choice Cuts: Disposable Camera Archive 2015-2023 by Corbin C
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. RIYL: CJ Harvey, SLC Punk!, moshing.
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.
Buckman Journal: Trance
Enter the trance and find madcap stories, weirdo poetry, and several significant appearances of spaghetti. Drive the glitchy highway, debate the great trances, and survive an allergic cascade. Try to reduce your screentime and risk a litigious smartphone. In this issue, trance is hypnotizing, hilarious, and haunting.
by Bronmin Shumway
Champs of the poetry arts have a knack to simplify delivery, but deliver big. Shumway is a poet who knows the economy of words but rolls like a Rolls Royce in cruise control.
RIYL: Sharon Olds, Shel Silverstein, The Great Lakes
A quarter of a century and change ago, I fell in love with the poetry of Bronmin Shumway. When it was her turn at the mic, I was running toward the stage, beer flying, me flying, knees burned by the concrete cafe floor, as I skidded into kneeling, a devotional witness to her word way. Back then, I knew Shumway was a sunflower born and borne upon the fecund loams of Plath and all the others willing to flense the eros-soul; ain't no dark til something shines, as Townes sang. In The Night You Were Born I have found the poems of a mature poet whose talent for lyric poetry strung along narrative vignette is capacious and mesmeric. If Lorine Niedecker and Jean Valentine painted a picture of a poet and that poet rose from the page to fill pages, these would be those wise, deft, tender, and searing poems. Such soft glow in the "slow feathers of summer." Such fragrant acreage in each "small cliff" seen. Friends, I sat down to read a few Shumway poems and ended up reading all of them, twice. I trust you are in for the same undertow. Trust this poet and these poems. You will be washed, washed and renamed by these dazzling, gnomic parades.” —Abraham Smith, author of Destruction of Man and One Warm Morning
The Night You Were Born by Bronmin Shumway
Champs of the poetry arts have a knack to simplify delivery, but deliver big. Shumway is a poet who knows the economy of words but rolls like a Rolls Royce in cruise control. RIYL: Sharon Olds, Shel Silverstein, The Great Lakes.
An Interpretation of Flowers, by the Buckman Team
Sure, all flowers have given names, but that’s only a petal in the crown of what they have to offer, to enchant us with. Odd Guide to the Flowers of Portland recognizes this and instead presents a strange and expansive compendium of our floral friends and their many quirks and colors. Organized into categories such as Variance, Parable, and Fantastic, this pocket-sized book explains the plants through odes, portraiture, montage, instructions, neologism, and field entries of all sorts. Odd Guide goes beyond mere classification to imagine what the stamens might be saying, what dreams their perfumes might induce, what potions could be made with their juices, sepals. Discover the plants’ personalities through poetic and artistic descriptions, characterizations that are at turns, humorous, romantic, imaginative, and absurd. For open-minded botanists and laypeople alike, Odd Guide is sure to give you a new and surprising appreciation for the inflorescence at your ankles; to make you want to crouch down and notice, relate to, converse with, and bloom accordingly.
RIYL: Gardening, psychedelia, The Surrealists.
Watch the trailer for Odd Guide with live reading here!
Odd Guide to the Flowers of Portland by the Buckman Team
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 strolling all over our blossoming town. RIYL: Gardening, psychedelia, The Surrealists.
By Rich Perin
Go on, type Cornfry and a red squiggle will underline it. Computers, smart phones, and the algorithmic laws regard Cornfry as different, not common, something that should be corrected, to fit in. Proud to be out of those frames, poetry is out in the wild with this collection. Hup hup, let’s ride.
RIYL: Dirt. Waterbeds. Road trips. Fireflies.
“Rich Perin’s Cornfry is a feast of language. These poems are saturated with the exuberant momentum of a writer whose breath is so present in the page that even when read silently, you cannot help but hear a rhythm compelling you through this book. Perin’s poems are rooted in presence and the specificity of place, rambling through the south and West Coast of North America with a keen eye that captures both the mundane and the grandiose equally and relishes in sound and detail. Odes and laments are equally bestowed on scenes of the everyday in a landscape that is rooted in the present but feels ever-aware of history running always beneath the surface. Pick up Cornfry and buckle up for an unforgettable ride.” —Carolyn Supinka, author of Metamorphic Door
Cornfry by Rich Perin
Hit the road, check out the scenes, shape words into vividity, accurately recount the time, place, and action. Cornfry ventures out and makes the best of the situation with a kind heart and good humor. Nice to see poetry have wit and whip. RIYL: The beat poets, persona poems, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
By Benjamin Kessler
The Pinnacle is a slim but telling volume. An unnamed narrator who works in the tallest building in the world, the eponymous Pinnacle, finds himself delving deeper into the building’s nexus and reckoning with his own in the process. A damning but highly entertaining tale of extreme capitalism, The Pinnacle presents a version of a future we’re easily hurtling towards—a future in which self-surveillance and superstructures flourish: the Hawaiian islands are linked by record-breaking bridges, healthcare is discounted for using your employer’s branded social media app, and The Pinnacle towers at 324 floors and counting. Proprietary technology in the form of a massive rod rammed into the planet’s core allows The Pinnacle to keep growing indefinitely, and along with it, the secrecy that surrounds its Manhattan address. Equal parts prophetic and psychedelic, funny and foreboding, this story about labor and how our jobs define us (or don’t) ultimately becomes one about honesty, family, and self-actualization.
RIYL: Charles Yu, Studs Terkel, The Southern Reach series.
Watch the trailer for The Pinnacle with live reading here!
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“Benjamin Kessler's page-turning, dystopian-skyscraper novella is both appropriately psychedelic and surprisingly emotionally vulnerable. The imagery and unique dreamstate of The Pinnacle will linger with you long after you finish.” —Joshua James Amberson, author of Staring Contest and How to Forget Almost Everything
“Benjamin Kessler’s The Pinnacle is the most unsettling type of dystopia: one that is just a few degrees off from our present reality. This slim novella captures the dehumanization of American workers in late-stage capitalism in a way that is not only smart and entertaining, but gorgeously written and laugh-out-loud funny.” —Gabriel Urza, author of The White Death: An Illusion and All That Followed
“Like the building at the center of this destabilizing and wonderfully odd tale, The Pinnacle is massive in scope and yet strangely tidy in its construction. In less confident hands this book might have turned into a five hundred page doorstop. Bravo to Benjamin Kessler for bringing to life one of the most beguiling narrators I've encountered recently. Lyrical, curious, self-sabotaging—it's his harrowing display of humanity that sets The Pinnacle in a class of its own.” —Michael Heald, author of Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension
The Pinnacle by Benjamin Kessler
A damning but highly entertaining tale of extreme capitalism, The Pinnacle presents a version of a future we’re easily hurtling towards—a future in which self-surveillance and superstructures flourish. RIYL: Charles Yu, Studs Terkel, The Southern Reach series
By Amanda Berlind
Step into the psychedelic, anthropomorphic, and comedic world of Hal, a new comic from the imagination of multimedia artist Amanda Berlind. Join Hal and Charley and Poochie and Gosh in their colorful dimension for daydreams, fateful encounters, and milkshakes at the Moonshine Diner. Told primarily through art that will boggle the mind and eye alike, Hal has something for everyone: swordfights, portals, an amphibian villain, powerfully magic carrots, God’s lasagna, and maybe even a happy ending!
RIYL: Jim Woodring, My Neighbor Totoro, talking dogs.
First 50 orders include an extra piece of ephemera in the book.
Check out BTS footage of rehearsal for the live musical performance of Hal here!
Hal by Amanda Berlind
Told primarily through art that will boggle the mind and eye alike, Hal has something for everyone: swordfights, portals, an amphibian villain, powerfully magic carrots, God’s lasagna, and maybe even a happy ending! RIYL: Jim Woodring, My Neighbor Totoro, talking dogs.
Buckman Journal: Preserve & Decay is a veritable compost pile of creativity featuring contributions from over 25 local artists and writers. This issue contains cover art by Melissa Monroe that you’ll want to pet, a DIY recipe for Beet Kvass from professional Portland foodie Liz Crain, and a philosophical profile of Willamette winemaker Cristina Gonzales captured with her rainbow of bottles in photos by Christine Dong, to name a few. Meet Hot Head in a comic excerpt. Hear what the tinned fish have to say. Take a field trip to the Taku B Glacier. Earn your own adjective. Learn how green could save us. Tour the possibilities of the poem and much more.
Ordering directly from Buckman guarantees a deluxe edition of the journal, which includes special extra ephemera with the first 250 orders—like a risograph print by artist Jakelen Diaz.
Read In Search by Elizabeth Weinberg, which is featured in this issue.
Buckman Journal: Preserve & Decay
An anthology with cover art you’ll want to pet, a philosophical exploration of wine, and a DIY recipe for Beet Kvass. Meet Hot Head in a comic excerpt. Hear what the tinned fish have to say. Take a field trip to the Taku B Glacier. Earn your own adjective. Learn how green could save us and more.
By Xinyu Liu
Rain or Coincidences is a window, something you look through but which keeps you at a remove, watching. Take a long walk around and spend fragments of time with an interconnected cast of strangers. Told in six acts, this book is about the near-misses and the formations made by our weather, our comings and goings. From rained-out weddings to oysters inventing their own tides to an interactive video game made by an ex, this visual novel is a completely and complexly built world that puts a narrative to the feeling of longing. Filled with artifacts such as notebook pages, an old school assignment, and a radio playlist, this story embodies the human impulse of trying to make a record, with a photograph, a transcript, or a poem. This book seeks to be that record, to preserve a mood, a day, a conversation. It will remind you that a chance meeting or an unexpected rainstorm can change everything.
RIYL: Agnes Varda, Wong Kar-wai, James Joyce’s Ulysses.
First 100 orders include an extra piece of ephemera in the book.
Rain or Coincidences by Xinyu Liu
Not a choose-your-own-adventure, but a guided wandering. This story, told with equal parts words and photography, happens inside the container of a single summer day and shows us the artfulness of daily human interaction. RIYL: Agnes Varda, Wong Kar-wai, Ulysses.
By Frances Badalamenti
Many Seasons is a skein, an elaborate tangle unraveling and being rewound. This story and the self inside it must get undone in order to be seen and painstakingly reassembled. Just as personhood is non-linear, in this story, memory mingles with moment and matter-of-factly presents the formidable questions: Are attachments a reward or a burden? Stability or freedom? Independence, or that obvious one: love? Ana, our protagonist, steadily excavates all of this—along with generations of familial patterns, both repeating and interrupting them in her own evolving family. She critiques motherhood while enacting it, she discovers her gender as she observes it through her writing, and questions her relationships while staying in them. Many Seasons is really about being known; coming to terms with the fact that the richest part of us, one’s interior, may go unknown except to itself. And perhaps, in this case, to the page. By keeping her own narrative, Ana makes a record of renewal, of recovery, of domestic labor, of anxiety as a parallel realm. She shows us that healing is a threshold and a path, that selfhood is a grand, nesting landscape, and that much like home, it is a shelter made by effort, devotion.
RIYL: Tove Ditlevsen, Rachel Cusk, going to therapy.
Read an essay by the author about autofiction: A Woman’s Search for Meaning: On Motherhood and Writing the Self.
"A deft simmer of a book, Frances Badalamenti’s Many Seasons is a practice in dailiness. Ana, the book’s narrator, lives a writer’s life, complete with a writer’s challenges, from work-life balance to partnership issues to questions regarding self-worth. What sets Many Seasons apart from so many other books, though, is Ana’s insistence on unrehearsed introspection and examination. There are no happy endings and Ana exists within the framework that life has provided her, while simultaneously looking towards the future and its wealth of possibility. Many Seasons is a necessary text for any writer that studies their internal landscape and wonders, what if ?" —Jeff Alessandrelli, author of And Yet (Future Tense Books, 2024)
“In Many Seasons, spare and precise expressions of everyday living become meditations on freedom versus stability, gender, love, safety, motherhood, eco-failure, grief, and learning to self-parent. With a compelling photography series by Aaron Wessling, this book is a beautiful depiction of the quotidian and how small moments accumulate and articulate larger truths. Sad, angry, honest, lovely. Reminiscent of Kate Zambreno’s Drifts but quintessentially Portland, in the best ways. Bike rides, therapy, morning tea, books, rain, records, grassy overlooks, art, unpaved roads, wildflowers, getting stoned and enjoying the view.” —Alissa Hattman, author of Sift (The Third Thing, 2023)
Many Seasons by Frances Badalamenti
Many Seasons is just that—a catalog of phases, a record of interiority, a study in personal and generational healing. Our protagonist Ana writes her own narrative and in doing so, speaks to the devotion it takes to make a home and to maintain a self. RIYL: Tove Ditlevsen, Rachel Cusk, going to therapy.
By Mike Vos
Mike Vos presents a new sort of landscape photography, one for the anthropocene, one that is a practice of both time and place, and one which seeks contextual transcendence by altering what and how we see. Somewhere In Another Place distills more than three years of work and countless miles traveled across the continent into 49 double exposure photographs which represent nearly 100 distinct locations. We are invited into a procession of carefully invented places, to witness their visual echoes, to see their waters mirror ancient shapes. Here you’ll find vessels mixed with mountains, waterfalls framed by windows, stalactites crossed with a satellite dish, geologic formations stitched with ephemeral human structures on their way out of existence. Because all imagery is composed, overlaid, and captured manually on a large-format camera, Vos plays an existential tetris of fitting together immersive new terrains and opening a unique plane to consider the mesh of interactions between landscape, the built environment, and the self. With an afterword elaborating on his process and a reading list of literature which inspired the series, to experience this book is to join Vos on his journeys, to explore and behold as you never have.
RIYL: Clarice Lispector, Alejandro Cartagena, utopias/dystopias.
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Somewhere in Another Place by Mike Vos
This debut photography book distills years of work and countless miles traveled across the continent into 49 double-exposure images, created entirely in-camera on large format film, which conjure an imagined and transformed world. RIYL: Clarice Lispector, Alejandro Cartagena, utopias/dystopias.
By Erinn Kathryn
Comprised of 26 poems made over a five-year period, In the Frail is a dialogue, an invitation, a collection of embodied verse. Crafted from the 1944 Persons and Places by philosopher George Santayana, these poems are composed not solely in a mind, but channeled through a body: trimming and gluing selected syllables and phrases into new combinations–a tactile construction which requires care, dexterity, and an appreciation of imperfect shapes. The inherently visual poems speak to the value of salvage, an ethos which is echoed in Erinn Kathryn’s visual arts practice, which frequently includes reclaimed materials. Welcoming to experienced and newer readers of poetry alike, In the Frail is personal and communal, reminding us we are all channels, making and remaking meaning, always.
RIYL: Mary Ruefle, Ross Gay, collaging.
Check out the limited edition handmade Art Book version of In The Frail via Borderline Press.
In the Frail by Erinn Kathryn
This collection exists in the liminal space between visual and language art. Poems are constructed with borrowed and reanimated language to question, document, and refract our current 2020s era. RIYL: Mary Ruefle, Ross Gay, collaging.
Buckman Journal: Gorge runneth over with the right stuff! Get gross and gorgeous at once in a cover spread photographer by Paisley Lee, featuring nails by Sam Sangermano & local jewelry. Visit the real-deal dive in our namesake neighborhood that serves a pricey, path-altering drink in fiction from Hannah Love. Spend time at The Institute of Living in a memoir excerpt from Sara Atwood. Consider blowing your fortune on a vintage coastal property in a novel excerpt from S.Z. James. Get lost in Stephanie Hatch’s technicolor collages and swirl in the lava-lamp-mindscape of Emily Moon. Find a new slogan in the strange phrasings of poet Maxwell Kline. Stop to linger on the city bridges and envision our remade Burnside in creative nonfiction from Anita Macauley. Eat barbecue in the Alvord Desert vortex. See your reflection in the glowing fish tank. Get down with the creases. And more more more…
Ordering directly from Buckman guarantees a deluxe edition of the journal, which includes special extra ephemera with the first 250 orders—like a postcard of the Burnside Bridge photographed by Goldandfaceted, a DIY fortune teller, and a photography print by John Kirkley overlayed with words by S.Z. James.
Read Minding the Gap by Anita Macauley (with photos by Goldandfaceted), which is featured in this issue! Or check out BTS from the cover shoot.
Buckman Journal: Gorge
A Cadillac and its owner meet their unexpected spiritual guide. Desperation leads to a shot glass of expensive, mysterious substance. Existential politics of the living room aquarium are revealed. The grandiosity of the Columbia Gorge is captured on camera. Portland’s Burnside Bridge is studied, past and future.
The Great Gatsby: Buckman Critical Edition reprises the 1922 classic with sharp design and three critical literary essays which consider its century-long influence. Merridawn Duckler gets in the driver's seat to tell us why Gatsby is the first novel of the automobile. Emmi Greer takes a deep dive into the purpose of parties and Rich Perin wanders away from the crowd to explore the mansion and reflect on what we call “success,” and legacy. Complemented with original Art Nouveau illustrations by Ellen Robinette who portrays the characters and iconic settings within the book, Buckman’s version of Gatsby offers an opportunity to reacquaint yourself with a well-known, but often misunderstood story and come away with new reasons to appreciate it.
RIYL: Joseph Conrad, floral prose, your high school English teacher.
Read an essay by Emmi Greer from the Buckman Gatsby edition: Party 4 u.
The Great Gatsby: Buckman Critical Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The original novel accompanied by illustrations and essays that engage a 21st century appreciation of the American classic. RIYL: Joseph Conrad, floral prose, your high school English teacher.
By Carolyn Supinka
Metamorphic Door is a shapeshifting landscape. To read this collection is to tour the meat cave, the hadal zone, the summer air strung with mayflies. These are poems of noticing, full of insects, birds, and rocks; but also of viral videos, message-bearing geese, and the rat galactic. Supinka writes with a lantern curiosity, casting light everywhere her poetic gaze goes and these beams are further illuminated by illustrations which accompany the poems, as well as the combination of the two: poetry comics, which are featured throughout the book. Step through the eponymous door, roam its organic trappings, and feel your ecological and temporal attention transformed.
RIYL: Bianca Stone, Ada Limón, birdwatching.
Watch the trailer for Metamorphic Door, featuring live poetry reading, here!
"From swooping owls to slug sex to distant galaxies, the speakers in Carolyn Supinka's Metamorphic Door are eagerly transfixed with the world at every turn. Perhaps this is because they recognize their bodies in the larger structures of nature, or perhaps they are hungry to experience all the flavors of rapture and loss that come their way. In any case, the results are delightful, and the addition of comics makes this collection all the more remarkable. Supinka's blend of drawings overlaid on each other speak to the joyous multiplicity of seeing, and become a palimpsest of movements through space and time. So what happens when you walk through the titular metamorphic door? ‘[Your] body emerges unraveled and transformed’—and that's only the beginning." —Sheila Dong, author of Moon Crumbs (Bottlecap Press, 2019)
Metamorphic Door by Carolyn Supinka
In this debut poetry collection, stone flows, air becomes geese, time and light intersect. Pacific Northwest poet and artist Carolyn Supinka delivers the quakes and tectonic shifts via poems, illustration, and the blending of the two: poetry comics. RIYL: Bianca Stone, Ada Limón, birdwatching.
Buckman Journal: Uncanny is an anthology showcasing over 25 local artists and writers serving up an all-genre feast of creativity. Uncanny features new works from Margaret Malone and Martha Grover, immersive visuals from Forest Wolf Kell and Jen Bacon, and cover art by Jess Ackerman, to name just a few. Crack open a copy and play a game of Sorcerers & Sewers, take a tour through the forests of Oregon, get inside the mind(s) of a museum guardian; travel up The Pinnacle, a three-hundred-plus-story building, surround yourself with interlocking fish tanks, get a glimpse of a mile long-scroll, take a late-night joyride, hang out with the barred owls, and much more.
Orders directly through Buckman will include miscellaneous ephemera! The archived deluxe edition included a postcard with artwork by Jen Bacon and a DIY D20.
Buckman Journal: Uncanny
The spirit of a museum security guard is able to leave and return to the body. Death doula leads the queer grief club. Artist makes a scroll one-mile long. Comic strips are an art form that will tangle eyes. Poetry from the 2023 Buckman Poetry Prize winner.
By Daniel O’Brien-Bravi
Barista Haiku that graced the blackboard of Tiny’s Coffee in Portland, OR, weekly from 2014-2017. Darkly funny, playful, and modern verse accompanied with full-color illustrations, as well as images of the original haikus on the Tiny’s blackboard. This is poetry for fellow service industry workers, and all who survived the last chaotic decade.
RIYL: Dave Eggers, dark humor, obsessive repetition.
Tiny Haiku by Daniel O’Brien-Bravi
Barista Haiku that graced the blackboard of Tiny’s Coffee in Portland, Oregon weekly from 2014-2017. Darkly funny, playful, and modern verse accompanied with full-color illustrations and photos. RIYL: Dave Eggers, dark humor, obsessive repetition.
The tenth anthology from the Buckmxn Journal crew, dishing out art and literary hot stuff like a three star Michelin print buffet. Featuring Madame GoLong who leads from the drums—shot by photographer Destinee Davis for the cover, adorned with illustrations by Melissa Reed. Additionally, poet and painter Daniela Naomi Molnar, photographer Hattie Watson capturing dancer Linda Austin, autofiction by Frances Badalamenti, and many more artists and writers from the broad spectrum Portland scene.
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Buckman Journal: Broad Spectrum
The drummer is the leader, front and center, and ministering to people. The joke is a cave, deep and long. Paintings using stone, flower pigments, and glacier water accompany poetry written at the base of a rapidly retreating glacier. Junkies discover timing is a strange feat. The dancer is a curious river that crisscrossed the country.
By Craig Buchner
In Portland, Oregon, an inquisitive soul, Thom, spends much of his day having these thoughts. Obsessed by what is around him, he begins to question his own wishy-washy life philosophies. But as he and his husband Howard struggle to navigate their rollercoaster relationship and their careers as freelance writers, Thom is faced with a challenge far greater than the persuasive power of their possessions. During a once-very-33-years meteor shower, an evil unlike anything on earth lands in their neighborhood tree, setting off a string of puzzling and unsettling events–beginning with the appearance of anthropomorphic squirrel named Gordito and an invisible presence capable of mind-control.
RIYL: Lorrie Moore, Ben Lerner, cosmic chaos.
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Fish Cough by Craig Buchner
At the crossroads of considering parenthood, a Portland couple watches a rare meteor shower and then have the strangest year of their lives. Fish Cough will make you consider how quickly your own life might unravel if a single cosmic thread is tugged. RIYL: Lorrie Moore, Hiroko Oyamada, handsome priests who like crystals.
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. Contributors include: Michelle Ruiz Keil (Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Finalist), Pace Taylor (NY Times), Chris Stuck (Pushcart Prize winner, Amistad/HarperCollins), Scott Korb (New Yorker), Lauren Yoshiko (Broccoli), Erin Nations (Eisner and Ignatz nominated), and many more. Photography for the cover & throughout the journal provided by Chris Nesseth, shot from around the streets of Portland. Short stories. Essays. Comics. Poetry. Recipes. Photos. Painting. Tarot. Illustrations. Mixed Art. Presented in a GIANT paperback book.
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Buckman Journal: 009 This is Portland
Photographic portraits of the city and its unique action. A tarot reading for Portland. Recipes inspired by the city’s food scene. The Buckman Poetry Prize winner. Extra super large size!
Whoa, Buckman Journal 008 is an action-packed blockbuster! Trek through the jungles of the Amazon in search for an elusive medicinal plant that treats depression, then head to New York City and get mistaken for an extremely wealthy person in SoHo. A wide display of art fill the pages, too, from Andy Warhol Foundation recipient Bean Gilsdorf to self-taught Forest Salazar. Full cover design by illustrator Allie Sullberg. No doubt about it. The Portland scene is bursting with extraordinary talent, and Buckman is here to deliver the goods.
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Buckman Journal: 008
Journey into the Amazon to find a shaman who will guide you with Mother Ayahuasca. In a high-fashion boutique in New York City, you get mistaken as a person of great wealth. A nurse tends to patients in the poor-and-dying wing of the hospital. Mom insists son ditches school so they can play Legend of Zelda together. The self-taught painter sure swings a mighty brush.
The latest volume features the work of over 25 writers and artists, all PDXers, all rad. Featuring everything from short stories to recipes to essays to photography to painting to sculpture to beyond like a literary art superhero, y’all. Tomás Oliveras provides the front cover art. Inside, other artists include Tara Murino-Brault, HELLSEA, Radha Kai Zan, Caitlin Delohery, Jason Arias, and many other fine authors deliver their latest stories. And a feature by Kourtney Paranteau, aka cute meat, detailing the elusive Oregon truffle, from hunting to creating five truffle recipes that capture the spirit of old Portland.
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Buckman Journal: 007
Venture into the lush forest to find the famous Oregon black truffle. The internet of the mid-1990s sure was different. Ceramics that look like surreal food. Office gossip leads to revelation. Guy in his late 40s discovers he has a grown daughter.
By Stacy Brewster
What We Pick Up is the gripping debut story collection from Portland author and screenwriter Stacy Brewster, recipient of the 2019 Literary Arts Fellowship in Drama. In these eleven tightly-wound stories, Brewster turns clichés of boyhood and manhood on their heads, revealing the trappings and failures of American masculinity when viewed from any angle, especially a queer one.
A brash, young man recounts the life he shared with an older lover in rural, 1930s Oregon... queer teenagers navigate a family vacation on a remote lake... a gay retiree tries to outrun an apocalyptic sandstorm... and an aging alcoholic is transfixed by the return of a long-lost sibling. In the title story-connected to two others in the collection-a sound recordist who survived a violent car crash as a boy and a suicide attempt as a teenager, must find his place in the world between his love of film and the perils of Hollywood exploitation.
With sharp observation, cinematic detail, and wit, Stacy Brewster's What We Pick Up is intensely satisfying, with stories that span vastly different decades and landscapes. Brewster's stories of fathers, sons, brothers, and lovers-gay, bi, trans, queer-all manage to mix dark humor, earnest pathos, and a quiet reserve of hope to re-vision a different path forward for all of us.
RIYL: Raymond Carver, Brandon Taylor, flawed queer characters.
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“Stacy Brewster's debut collection What We Pick Up is so damn good—rampant with sharp, funny, melancholy narrators burdened by the weight of either not quite knowing themselves yet, or of knowing themselves all too well but unable to shift course. Brewster has written a wonderful book with vivid sensory details and stories that will stay with a reader for a long time to come. A joy to read.” —Margaret Malone, author of People Like You
“Many of the small, precise moments of these stories remind me of an updated version of Hemingway’s Nick Adams Stories—so real and perfectly calibrated you can reach them only through the beats of your heart.” —Sara Guest, poet and editor
“Extraordinarily cinematic, the stories in What We Pick Up light up the most vulnerable and compelling moments within families. Stacy Brewster is both poet and film director here. He tightly spins plots that go unexpected places while exploring the way language fails us.” —Kate Gray, author of Carry the Sky
What We Pick Up by Stacy Brewster
Eleven stories which span vastly different eras, places, and landscapes deftly turn clichés of boyhood and manhood on their heads, revealing the trappings and failings of American masculinity when viewed from any angle, especially a queer one. RIYL: Raymond Carver, Brandon Taylor, flawed queer characters.
How about these apples! Buckmxn Journal, the nationally acclaimed literary and art anthology, returns with another feisty installment. Writers include winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, Kesha Ajose-Fisher, Jennifer Perrine, Chanel Heart, and many others. Art by Anya Roberts-Toney, Lara Rouse, Samantha Wall, to name a few. Also, the crew from Black Feast graced the cover and supplied a section of striking imagery and strong words of affirmation.
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Buckman Journal: 006
The folx from Black Feast set a new table celebrating Black artists and writers. The concrete poet employs the computer generated but holds a tight leash. The oracle bones have their say. Total captivation in the detail of ink drawings. During the pandemic, time worked differently.
Leaping into 2021 with arms akimbo, Buckmxn Journal 005 stands proud and ready to deliver prime stories and art that engage and entertain. Cover art and back cover design by Salomée Souag, photographed by Joseph Blake. Featured writers include Liz Crain, Monte Lin, Laura Lampton Scott, and Poet Laureate of Oregon, Anis Mojgani. Artists include Coleman Stevenson, Echo Chambers, Jocelle Rosano, and many more.
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Buckman Journal: 005
Examine sacred scribe writing, question the formulas that turn letters into words. The deep twisting of a mind treated and confined at the state hospital. What happens to people who disappear while venturing into a city of books? Learn how to make deviled quail eggs. The playful curiousness alive in murals.
By Jerry Sampson
The Scream & Other Dark Stories is fourteen tales where the monster is no longer within.
In the eponymous The Scream, after a mysterious disease has infected the U.S., a journalist is forced into government mandated EMDR therapy to recover lost memories. Abigail Alone sees a woman losing her sense of identity after a betrayal. In Mathias & LEENA, a ghost finds unlikely love with a home computer system. To Everything,Turn introduces the reader to a family with a dark and powerful lineage on the day of the youngest brother’s transformation. A mother’s decision in Black Wings leads her into a pit of darkness that no mind could overcome.
RIYL: Shirley Jackson, Carmen Maria Machado, blood & guts.
“Jerry Sampson’s stories are dark as hell. She burrows deep inside the minds of her characters and reveals them slowly. There is a visual element to her writing that puts you right there with them. You feel their discomfort both emotionally and physically. It’s like having a front row seat to their own personal hell. Her stories don’t end as you hope, they end the way they are supposed to. Jerry is a great story teller and these stories will stick with you, whether you want them to or not.” —Kelley Baker, author and the Angry Filmmaker
The Scream & Other Dark Stories by Jerry Sampson
Deep in the shadows of the human soul are monsters that should never see the light of day. But some fight to the surface, consume the entire being, then prey on anyone else that is around. RIYL: Chuck Palahniuk, Carmen Maria Machado, blood & guts.
Buckman Journal 004 comes along packing some of the finest words and art happening today. Wild stories from Kim Stafford, Michelle Ruiz Keil, and many others. Artists include Justin L’amie, Lehuauakea Fernandez, and Tony Aguero, and a collaborative cover featuring Small Yard florals and Matthew Abadi’s blown glass tableware, styled & shot by Brittany Wilder.
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Buckman Journal: 004
The goose queen is compassionate but don’t mess with her. The Oregon Poet Laureate writes prose. A Portlander who is a Swahili translator returns to Tanzania. The diaries of an artist are a wild ride. After spending half-a-year silent in a gloomy town, she learns her true nature.
Hold on tight, Buckman Journal 003 is a bronco of a wild ride. Wrap around cover by Tyler Bingham (FKA AWAKE). Featured writers include Walidah Imarisha and Susan DeFreitas; art by Amanda Jackson, Jeremy Okai Davis, and many more; interview with Lauren Prado; and in the deluxe edition a poetry centerfold by Alyson Provax (yes, really, a centerfold of poetry!) Buckmxn brings the literary raunch, y’all.
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Buckman Journal: 003
Aliens arrive on planet Earth seeking an intergalactic alliance with Black folk. An artist turns Kardashian selfies into rugs. Before the Portland Meadows horse racing track is demolished, two punters sprint the final stretch. Cosmic horror descends upon a small coastal town. A printmaker goes wild on a letterpress.
By Rich Perin
The Last Payphone on the West Coast is a short story collection of rare realness—centered around folks finding analog moments amongst the age of instantaneous expectation. The twelve stories wander around the North American continent, showing us an underground collector in New Orleans, a self-aware hearse facing retirement in New York, and an apparition in Mexico City. Told with a tint of the surreal, these stories are alive with the people that reside in them. Perin’s humanity shows, manifesting in the meaning of small but authentic gestures.
RIYL: Jack Kerouac, George Saunders, road trips.
The Last Payphone on the West Coast by Rich Perin
Stories of a shopping-cart tramp, a freshly released ex-con, a self-aware 1979 Cadillac hearse, and other folks from the periphery negotiating the age of smartphones and instantaneous expectations while roaming around the North American continent. RIYL: Jack Kerouac, George Saunders, road trips.
By Elizabeth “Ibby” Rivers (Formerly known as Liz Lampman)
Another Fortune is a poetic document, the tender explication of a complex romance. In it, Rivers’s words are quite literally, lit. Illuminated by twin lanterns of vulnerability and confidence, the booze-drenched poems drip with a queer wisdom, and are anchored by a heroic crown of sonnets. With juicy, emotive watercolors by illustrator Lettie Jane Rennekamp, Another Fortune is sure to sweep you up into its sensory realm, offer honest tonic, speak remedy.
RIYL: Elizabeth Bishop, Donika Kelly, complicated romances.
Listen to the live recording of the poet performing Another Fortune, accompanied by harpist Lily Breshears at The Hallowed Halls, here.
Another Fortune & Other Poems by Ibby Rivers
In the boozy aftermath of exciting sex, when mind and body become one, and from the space between mind and body, where the longing that travels physical distances comes to us not as undeviating lines but as radial waves, Ibby Rivers’s poems urge us to remember those we have truly loved and those we have craved after. RIYL: Elizabeth Bishop, Chen Chen, complicated romances.
By Anita Lobo
Imagine a world in which the title of president gets nowhere near Donald J. Tr***, because he has found his true home as a wailing baby in the world of professional wrestling. Now imagine if this world were threatened and a secret order of female assassins were the only hope of restoring a more just, less orange version of reality. 20!8 is an absurdist comedy for anyone who has wondered if the twenty-teens were a glitch in the space-time continuum.
RIYL: Alissa Nutting, Broad City, Pantsuits.
20!8: The Order of Athena vs the Orange Bastard by Anita Lobo
In this comic thriller, a group of powerful women whose origins predate known history are on a singular mission to boot The Orange Bastard out of highest office and return order to a harmonious feminist society. RIYL: Alissa Nutting, Broad City, pantsuits.
By Craig Foster
The Right Tool is a machine. Step inside each story and transport into another mind. In twenty-three flash fiction stories, Foster presents a succession of bewildered psyches. The quick delivery makes The Right Tool the perfect book to crack open when you need an instant dose of someone else’s strange. Get glimpses of Tokyo, No-Talent night at Al’s Bar in Riverside, and an expedition in the Pliocene era. Accompanying each story, Foster also provides illustrations.
RIYL: Charlie Kaufman, Clarice Lispector, Psychoanalysis.
The Right Tool and Other Poor Choices by Craig Foster
Misfits governing a neighborhood. A devoted parent of vintage dolls. Or a visitor who seems so like us. All of them doing their best, using the right tools at the wrong times. These are tales of people living in the most dangerous lands: their own minds. RIYL: Charlie Kaufman, Leonora Carrington, psychoanalysis.
For Buckman Journal 002, John Gourley, who fronts Portugal. The Man, collaborated with photographer Hattie Watson to create the cover. Inside: An excerpt from the novel Kickdown by award-winning author Rebecca Clarren; a selection of poems by one of the form’s rising stars, Ibby Rivers (FKA Liz Lampman), paired with the art of Jessica Poundstone; comics by Sketchy People; and a wealth of short stories, memoirs, essays, flash fiction, and art, all made by Portlanders.
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Buckman Journal: 002
Sensual poetry, a yearning that strains the reins. After a lifetime of correspondence, lovers finally reunite. Dare to walk into a house of vacuums. Two brothers fight over a goldfish. A mayoral candidate discusses the weirdness of society.
The first Buckman Journal, one plump puppy! The savviest writers. The best artists. Sending scouts deep into the Portland, Oregon, literature and arts scene, Buckman Journal brings together the city’s exceptional talent and presents them to the greater world. Delivered with vigor and sharp visuals, the publication dares to revitalize the printed form.
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Read Morocco by Tiara Darnell, which is featured in this issue.
Buckman Journal: 001
Get an insider look at the Portland house show scene. Enjoy the twists in a new wave fairy tale that follows a bare-knuckle fighter. Celebrate Eid-el-Kabir in Morocco. Witness the most ridiculous open mic. Old Portland encourages new Portland sympathetically. Take the road less traveled into a Pacific Northwest forest.
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