Once Upon a Time

  Armin Tolentino served as poet laureate for Clark County Washington from 2021-2023 and is the author of the collection We Meant to Bring It Home Alive (Alternating Current Press).  He earned an MFA at Rutgers University-Newark and is a former Oregon Literary Arts Fellow.... Read more

  Join Consuelo on a conversation with Erick Mertz, professional ghostwriter, editor, and self-publishing author, who lives in Oregon City. He attended the University of Oregon where he received a degree in English and Comparative Literature. For the last twenty years, he ... Read more

  Leanne Kent Norden is a ceramic artist residing in Portland with her husband, cat, four ducks, and garden.  Her relationship with ceramics began in high school in Southern California, then grew while she was a student at Tulane University, and continued when she moved to... Read more

    --------   LIVE ➜Phone Lines Open, 503.231.8032 ➜Listeners encouraged to participate   Jessica E. Johnson (she/they) is the author of the book-length poem Metabolics (Acre Poetry Series), the chapbook In Absolutes We Seek Each Other (New Michigan Press), and the mem... Read more

  Matty spent a tumultuous youth in the all-ages clubs of Portland's seedy downtown, where he learned to play guitar and perform. The DIY culture of this environment instilled skepticism for the mainstream. This attitude was affirmed by the growing Anti-folk movement in N... Read more

  Jaye Nasir is a writer whose work blurs the line between the real and the unreal. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many small literary journals, both local and international, including Buckman Journal, Moss: A Journal of the Pacific Northwest, Strange Hor... Read more

  As an immigrant from Guatemala, to the USA, Héctor shares with us his experiences about becoming an immigrant in the US.  As a resident of Portland, OR he tells us about his challenges and projects.     Autobiography is also an oral tradition that goes from generation to... Read more

  Consuelo reminisces about life experiences that have marked her life, regrets, failures, successes, love.    Topaz joins once more to discuss and read poetry.   ---- ----- Read more

  Matt Knutson is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop, where he won the Joanna Leake Prize for Fiction Thesis. He's been a resident at the Sundress Academy for the Arts and his work has appeared in Cola Literary Review, Expat Press, Bat Ci... Read more

  On this episode of Once Upon a Time, we have an individual who describes himself as a dreaded poet philosopher. Topaz has been recently been published in the poetry anthology The Circle, published by Pierian Springs Press. He will be sharing autobiographical short stori... Read more