Judith Arcana

Jen Coleman 's newest book is WE DENIZENS (Furniture Press Books, 2016). She's also the author of PSALMS FOR DOGS AND SORCERERS (Trembling Pillow Press, 2013) - which was given the Bob Kaufman Book Prize (selected by poet Dara Wier). Originally from Minnesota, Jen receiv... Read more

For over three decades Dan Raphael’s been active in the Northwest as poet, performer, editor and reading host.  His 19th book of poetry, Everyone in This Movie Gets Paid, came out in June last year; between June and December, Dan gave 17 readings.  His work has appeared ... Read more

Natasha Sajé is the author of three books of poems, most recently Vivarium (Tupelo, 2014); a poetry handbook, Windows and Doors: A  Poet Reads Literary Theory (Michigan, 2014); and many essays. She teaches at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and in the Vermont Col... Read more

Claudia F. Savage is one-half of the performance duo Thick in the Throat, Honey and co-runs the forthcoming music-poetry label Thrum Recordings.  Her collaboration with Detroit artist Jacklyn Brickman, reductions, about motherhood and ephemerality, will be exhibited Nove... Read more

Tiel Aisha Ansari is a data analyst ... and Sufi. Her work has been featured by Fault Lines Poetry, Windfall, KBOO and Prairie Home Companion among others. Her books include Knocking from Inside and High-Voltage Lines. She is currently president of the Oregon Poetry Asso... Read more

Chris and Toni co-host Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic, the series he established in 2004. Together they founded Printed Matter Vancouver, a small press and editing service.  Not only are there two of them, working together on those projects, but each of them does (notably) m... Read more

Susan Moore is the author of two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press:  She Preferred to Read the Knives and How to Live Forever. Her work has appeared in Filter, New York Quarterly, Quick Fiction and elsewhere. Susan edited the online poetry magazine Caffeine Destiny for 1... Read more

Steve Williams is a Portland poet and artist who publishes his poems with on-line journals, he says, because he prefers to support them.  He works with the disabled to help them find employment --- and often says he "lives with a lovely woman who writes and edits better ... Read more

  James Dixon is originally from North Carolina and a local theater actor/singer.  After nearly 10 years of travel to over 32 states and 7 countries, he decided to make Portland his home.  James enjoys dialect work, sci-fi, social justice activism, and is "always a suck... Read more

Matt Schumacher's new book of poetry, Ghost Town Odes, was published in October 2016 by redbat books. His previous collections include Spilling the Moon, The Fire Diaries, and favorite maritime drinking songs of the miraculous alcoholics. A graduate of the University Wis... Read more