The founder of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize and the Writing Ranch will receive the Holbrook award during the April 8 Oregon Book Awards ceremony.
The poet, painter, and writer, whose novel “Mala Noche” was turned into a film by Gus Van Sant, was a fixture of Portland’s poetry-reciting club scene in the 1970s and ’80s.
After losing her home in the Beachie Creek Fire, the Willamette Valley poet says she “felt compelled both to articulate it and to make something of value from it.”
Amy Leona Havin looks back at a year of book releases, events, interviews, and inspirations from Oregon’s literary bounty.
The Maupin therapist and Oregon Book Award finalist says both poetry and psychotherapy are about discovery.
The Bend poet and author of Oregon Book Award-nominated “spare change” says the most essential quality for a writer is perseverance.
The multi-genre literary artist talks about process, perspectives, and her hybrid poetry work, “Instrument.”
As the nation celebrates the art of language, K.B. Dixon photographs ten leading Oregon poets.
The Hillsboro-based writer talks about her work, her love of Sylvia Plath, and Indigenizing the tarot deck.
This year’s Soapstone Bread and Roses Award recipient discusses hosting successful reading series and life on the Oregon Coast.
February brings us the love poems of Pablo Neruda, a celebration of Black History Month, and numerous virtual readings.
If you’re a writer, do things look different here? Dao Strom, J.C. Geiger, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., Amelia Díaz Ettinger, Laura Moulton, Ben Hodgson, Teresa K. Miller, and Rene Denfeld weigh in.
A new month stirs up a storm of cultural activity, from a big book fest to galleries to stage, screen, and sound.
ArtsWatch’s Amy Leona Havin talks with poet, author, and Reed College professor Lisa Steinman about reading, writing, community, and the landscapes of her childhood.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid ebbs and flows, arts & culture find fresh form – and Oregon stories arrive in a rush.
In his continuing series of portraits of Oregon artists, photographer K.B. Dixon profiles 11 outstanding writers.
“We’re back to where poetry has escaped the book. It’s not in the zoo of the library where it’s looking out through the bars of its cage.”
Photographer K.B. Dixon focuses on National Poetry Month with portraits of half a dozen leading Oregon voices.
How poet Joni Renee Whitworth transformed the pandemic experience into an experimental short film.
Here are two ways to know a poet: One is to read the work, which in the case of José Angel Araguz, offers an astonishingly intimate window into his journals – not “poetry notebooks,” per se, but the Moleskines where he writes
This weekend marks the 10th annual Terroir Creative Writing Festival, which for the first time in the event’s history has sold out. Organizers hit the legal capacity for their venue in McMinnville weeks ago and started a waiting list. Fortunately, we reached
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