Named after the nefarious Inner Southeast neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, Buckman Publishing makes a twice-a-year anthology 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
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.
Join us on Friday June 27th from 5 - 8pm for our Odd Garden Party ~ Celebrating the launch of our surrealists’s pocket guide to flowers and to help christen the new Buckman headquarters (secret’s out, we are moving!!)
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.
The Pinnacle
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.
“Not a single moment passed where the tower wasn’t growing.”
Buckman Journal: Preserve & Decay
“From above it looks perfectly flat, a never-ending expanse of white. It was inconceivably beautiful, and utterly alien.”
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.
Artwork featured by: Viktor Kobylianski, Melissa Monroe, Ricky Pee Pee
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.