It’s been 18 years since Dennis McGregor painted his first Sisters Folk Festival poster. Over the years, the annual image has become a moment captured in time, honoring a town and its dedication to the arts. This year is no different. “In the beginning people said, why don’t you just do an image of an […]
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A Thorny Devil Kind of Guy
Remembering Brad Smith of Paulina Springs Books
Brad Smith of Paulina Springs Books went out among the stars on May 20 of this year. But if reincarnation works, he’ll be back; not as Brad Smith but—as he wanted, believe it or not—as a thorny devil stick insect. If that goes as he planned, however, we’ll have to visit the Solomon Islands to […]
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PICK: High Desert Poetry Cell
saturday 16 High Desert Poetry Cell WORDS—Poetry’s canon is full to brimming with men—Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, some guy named Shakespeare—and yet the lyric art form has a decidedly feminine reputation. The High Desert Poetry Cell is working to change that with its compilation “The Guys’ Home Relationship Maintenance & Improvement […]
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Poetry Isn’t Just for the Birds
Central Oregon Poetry Cell present men who love prose and verse
For nearly a decade, Larry Jacobs, Don Kunz, John Kvapil, Peter Lovering and John Martin have been meeting weekly to collaborate on their mutual hobby. It’s not fly-fishing or custom cabinetry. Not classic cars or Texas Hold ‘Em or beer. They find themselves more often in bookstores than bars, and spend a good deal of […]