#pure surface

redefining success.

Samiya Bashir’s books of poetry, Field Theories (Spring 2017), Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls, and anthologies, including Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art, exist. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. She lives in Portland, Ore, with a magic cat who shares her obsessions with trees and blackbirds and occasionally crashes her classes and poetry salons at Reed College.

Julie Perini makes experimental and documentary videos and films. Her short-form personal works are autobiographical, self-reflective, and expressive. Her documentary feature films are produced within and alongside contemporary social movements. You might like to treat yourself to a peak at her daily & monthly video project, the Minute Movies. She is co-director, with Jodi Darby and Erin Yanke, of the documentary feature film, Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon (2015) distributed by Collective Eye Films.

Improvisation Summit of Portland – Live Updates Creative Music Guild presents the annual Improvisation Summit of Portland. We'll be posting photos with commentary throughout the event, which began tonight and will continue through Saturday.

claire barrera is an artist, educator and mother based in Portland, Oregon.  Upcoming projects include (Un)Made YOU with Performance Works Northwest and When Language Runs Dry, a zine anthology to be published by Mend My Dress Press in 2016.

A.M. O’Malley lives in Portland, OR where she is the Executive Director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Her writing has appeared in Nailed Magazine, Poor Claudia and The Burnside Review, among other publications. Expecting Something Else, her first full-length book of poems is out in early 2016.