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.
On a recent Monday night a familiar voice returned to the airwaves of Talking Earth, KBOO community radio’s long-running interview show about poets and other writers and reading aloud. The voice was soft and conversational, confiding, helpful, gently guiding the talk into