Join us to hear an hour of short readings from Portland’s literary talent as part of the inaugural Portland Arts Week. Authors will share prose and poetry featured in the latest issue of our anthology publication, Buckman Journal, as well as their own unique takes on arts and sports. Discover new voices and celebrate Portland's creative community in an intimate outdoor setting. Free and open to all!
Readers: Kai Broach writes fiction, poetry, and criticism. His work has appeared in Bright Wall/Dark Room and X-R-A-Y Lit. He reads for Bicoastal Review and co-facilitates the decentralized writing collective A Writer’s Room.
cutto.substack.comDan DeWeese (he/him) is the author of the novels Gielgud and You Don't Love This Man, and the story collection Disorder.
dandeweese.net, propellerbooks.comA physical media enthusiast, Ryan Mills (he/him) is a poet, a Letter Carrier for United States Postal Service, and Union Steward for the National Association of Letter Carriers.
oldpalmag.comMary Rechner’s (she/her) Marrying Friends was selected as the Best Short Story Collection of 2023 by Willamette Week. She is at work on a comic novel, tentatively entitled NovelBaby.
maryrechner.com, IG: @merechnerJulia Wohlstetter is a poet and educator whose work has appeared in Brazenhead Review, Metatron-Omega, Bodega Magazine, and Reality Beach. She received an MFA from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship, a MacIntyre Fellowship, and a Stanley Fellowship for International Research.
IG: @unrulia