Fuentes Winner
Luisa Valenzuela
nails mother-daughter dynamic.
Award Winner Ursula K. Le Guin
reveals benefits of preaching to the choir.
Mahmoud Darwish
explores states of siege.
Julie Busi
c
reminds us wars reverberate long after the shooting's stopped.
New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler
visits Occupy Wall St. & survives the day. Portland chronicler
Jennifer Robin
travels Portland's neofeudal Public Transport, & survives the night.
Melanie Alldritt
looks at looking at looking at that girl's hair in an infinite loop. Portland tr.
OR. Book Award Finalist Matthew Robinson
writes a timelapse Western history.
From further afield we've cartoons from director & illustrator
Liz Swados
, & Lithuanian Holocaust scholar
Migle Anusauskaite
;
Cristina Álvarez Lopez runs with Keith Jarrett; Croatian writer
Josip Razum
shows a man, his wife, his family & a painting; Danish
Birgit Munch
describes peculiar disownments;
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
, tr. by
Marilyn Hacker
, reveals a secret prehistory of words. Oz poet
Les Murray
offers precise perceptions & Swiss author
Christoph Keller
recalls Murray's kindness; Croatian
Armin Harambasic
shows all of life, waiting at a train station.
Lidia Yuknavitch
hatches an escape from Group,
Susan Daitch
guards the night,
Rick Moody
names all things legends omit.
Mo Daviau
nails Norman Mailer;
Oscar winner
Frederic Raphael
nails a tale told by Petronius.
Croatian graphic artist
Mirolsav Nemeth
takes a gleeful graphic journey to Rome. Japanese artist
Midori Oki
's art installation dives beneath the skin; Croatian
Monica Herceg
& Estonian
Triin Paja
relate souls to forests;
Lance Olsen
shows a digressive street encounter between Bowie & a neighborhood character; Croatian essayist
Dubravka Oraic Tolic shows
how the world changed even before Baader Meinhof.
PNW writers
Poe Ballantine
&
Kurt Eisenlohr
go their sardonic ways while
Mark Sargent
describes being anywhere with Gregory Corso. Poets near & far:
Coleman Stevenson
,
Leanne Grabel
Armin Tolentino
Brenda Taulbee
David Biespiel
; Greek poets
Dinos Siotis
Thanos Gogos
Phoebe Giannisi, Petros Skythiotis
, poets fr. other climes,
Robert Walser
Miroslav Kirin
Tomica Bajsic
Nina Wieda
Andrei Sen-Senkov
, &
Marge Piercy
. Prose fr.
Peter Fogtdal
, & graphics fr.
Tania Cardoso
(Rio/Rotterdam) complete Gobshite 2023.