Writing to Heal: Talking with Emilly Prado
Emilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
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Posts Tagged: Kevin Sampsell
Insinuative Curvilinearities: A Conversation with Garielle Lutz
Garielle Lutz discusses her new story collection, WORSTED.
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Notable Portland: 1/2–1/8
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 5/9–5/15
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 1/31–2/6
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 10/25–10/31
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 9/13–9/19
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreNotable Portland: 3/22–3/28
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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Little Seizures of Grief: Talking with Gary Lutz
Gary Lutz talks about his latest collection of short stories, Assisted Living, the author’s right of way, and the sentence.
...moreNotable Portland: 5/25–5/31
Thursday 5/25: Claire Dederer reads from her latest memoir, Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free. Walt Gragg reads from his new book, The Red Line. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.
...moreNotable Portland 4/6–4/12
Thursday 4/6: The Writers in and as Art panel, presented by the BFA in Writing program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, will feature a panel of curators, publishers, artists, and poets talking about the many ways writing functions in art practices. The panel will feature Tim Johnson, Caitlyn Murray, McIntyre Parker, Stephanie Snyder, […]
...moreNotable Portland: 1/12–1/18
Friday 1/13: Franz Nicolay reads from his anarcho-leftist memoir debut, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control and is joined afterwards in conversation by Cari Luna, author of The Revolution of Every Day. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free. Sunday 1/15: Get ready for Dear Sugar Radio: The Writers Resist! Join hosts Cheryl Strayed and […]
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Paper Trumpets #30: Feeling Disconnected From Nature
[T]he finding, cutting, and pasting process constantly offers me new perspectives on how I see the world around me.
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Paper Trumpets #29: Serpents/Babies
I like how these collages blend the cute innocence of 1950s clean-cut America with the slimy menace of tree-clinging serpents. It’s like a toddler version of the Garden of Eden.
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Paper Trumpets #28: Mystery of the Triangles
I’m not going to get brainy and talk about the mathematics of triangles; I simply like the visual energy in its slants, which, depending on its position in a collage, can suggest movement, growth, or escape.
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Paper Trumpets #27: I Don’t Remember How It Ends
I wanted to put that image inside a scene that disrupts the beauty of it.
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Paper Trumpets #26: Famous Myths of the Golden Age
This is part of the mystery and sometimes frustration of doing collage—trying to remember where things came from.
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Paper Trumpets #25: Abstract vs. Accident
If you tell yourself you’re going to work in an abstract style, is that too premeditated? I wonder if abstract is just another word for accidental.
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Paper Trumpets #24: Girl & Boys
One of my favorite revelations from the past year has been the discovery of old high school yearbooks.
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Paper Trumpets #23: Covering Covers
Sometimes you just come across magazine covers that look like finished pieces of art.
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Paper Trumpets #22: Three Genes
…editing a collage can be like editing a poem or a story. The act of taking things out will often make a piece breathe easier and come to life with a simpler beauty.
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Paper Trumpets #21: The Insurance of Company (Die Hand)
I often buy random photographs in thrift stores and vintage shops when I’m drawn to something in them—an awkward smile, a twinkle in the eye, a revealing hint of uncertainty.
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Paper Trumpets #20: The Student Sound
This is the 20th Paper Trumpets column, and to celebrate the occasion, we’re giving away original collages to 10 lucky commenters!
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Paper Trumpets #19: What To Do In an Emergency
These three collages were inspired by a 1988 book called Reader’s Digest Action Guide: What To Do in an Emergency.
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Paper Trumpets #18: Mia Cave
Sometimes you don’t see the full potential of an image until you cut it away from its original context.
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Paper Trumpets #17: Matador Ali
I watched the video of the fight online but the camera angle lowers so you don’t get to see this famous moment.
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The Rumpus Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz
Wendy C. Ortiz talks about her memoir, Excavation, about her teenage affair with her teacher, and how the moment you write down a memory you make it fallible.
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Paper Trumpets #16: The Feline Trio
People may think cats are so 2014, but I beg to differ. Cats are forever!
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Paper Trumpets #15: Puffy Has Something
The images and text on this collage are from an old Christmas book called Baby’s First Christmas, a short picture book published in 1983. I took the story text (about 100 words) and re-arranged it into a sort of dada holiday poem.
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