Ghost Town Poetry: Christopher Luna in the Pacific Northwest

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Open Mic Night at Oak Grove Coffeehouse April 24

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Voracity by Christopher Luna (Lightship Press, 2022)

Voracity by Christopher Luna

Exchanging Wisdom: A Guide for Parents of the Autonomous by Christopher and Angelo Luna

Exchanging Wisdom (The Poetry Box, 2021)

Message from the Vessel in a Dream (Flowstone Press, 2018)

Message from the Vessel in a Dream by Christopher Luna

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Printed Matter Vancouver
Creative Writing Workshops led by Christopher Luna

The Flame Is Ours: The Letters of Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure 1961-1978

The Flame Is Ours: The Letters of Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure 1961-1978, edited by Christopher Luna for Big Bridge 15

About Me

Christopher Luna: is a collage artist, poet, editor, writing coach and teacher. Luna served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Clark County, WA from 2013-2017. Luna has an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and is the co-founder, with Toni Lumbrazo Luna, of Printed Matter Vancouver, an editing service and small press for Northwest writers. He and Morgan Paige co-host the LGBTQ+ friendly, all ages and uncensored Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic in Vancouver, WA, founded by Christopher in 2004. He is the editor of The Work, a monthly poetry newsletter created to inform poets about events in Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA.

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Clark County Poet Laureate 2013 - 2017

"A Poetry Walk Surprise" by J.I. Kleinberg of The Poetry Department (aka The Boynton Blog), January 13, 2017
"‘Poetry Moves': C-Tran, arts agency team to entertain, inspire bus riders" by Scott Hewitt for the Columbian, December 21, 2015
Enriching Our Lives With Words: Poetry in Clark County Official Website
"Bus poems help riders travel to imaginative destinations," The Seattle Times January 2, 2016

Poetry by Christopher Luna

Our Visit to Saint John Coltrane Church August 2015
Warrior-Goddess Jane Revolves Alluringly in the Cosmos of Our Dreams: For John Hall August 13, 2020
Celebrate Like You're Running Out of Time, a Birthday Poem for Greg Luna July 4, 2020
National Poetry Month Poems by Christopher Luna April 2020
Poetry and Art in Loving Memory of Diane di Prima November 7, 2020
Saying Goodbye to Two Beloved Naropa Teachers: Poems for Bobbie Louise Hawkins and Bill Scheffel by Christopher Luna July 27, 2018
"A Short Poem for Cathleen Luna on Mother's Day 2019" by Christopher Luna May 12, 2019
"To Whitman the song of the boys sounds like a strawberry oboe" by Christopher Luna May 31, 2019
"Burnt Retina" by Christopher Luna January 3, 2020
"Approaching Totality (For John Furniss)" by Christopher Luna August 22, 2017
"The Archaeology of Patterns of Precipitation" by Christopher Luna on Washington Poetic Routes 2019
"Gathered Round the Flicker" for The Kiggins Theatre's 80th Anniversary Celebration by Christopher Luna May 8, 2016
"Before I was born, I already knew how to love (For Cathleen Luna)" October 16, 2015
"Two Poems for Ornette Coleman" by Christopher Luna June 11, 2015
Shaking Hands, a Pulitzer Remix E-Chapbook by Christopher Luna and Josh Medsker March 2014
"The Tarot Facilitates a Long-Overdue Good-Bye," "full text hallucination 102," and "sometimes the latticework of the veil" by Christopher Luna from Printed Matter Vancouver , May 14, 2013
"Father and son, facing the same way" by Christopher Luna from the Clark College Foundation website
"Mysissippi" by Christopher Luna from Twenty Four Hours Zine September 17, 2013
"Best Laid Plans" by Christopher Luna April 9, 2013
"Right Off (After Miles Davis)" by Christopher Luna from Unshod Quills No. 7 April 2013
"Love is a Radical Act" by Christopher Luna, in celebration of the wedding of Kelly Keigwin and Sam Mackenzie, December 9, 2012
"Things to Do in Ghost Town" by Christopher Luna and Chris Martin's Innovators of Vancouver episode on Luna from WA Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken's blog The Far Field
"My kinda crowd to multi-tendril through," a collage poem for Dan Raphael, October 22, 2011
An untitled poem beginning with the line "Ignore the old babble" by Christopher Luna, from Writing the Life Poetic E-Zine (National Poetry Month Edition April 2010)
"The best things in life are better than any damn movie" from Writing the Life Poetic E-Zine (December 2009)
“things get serious in Ghost Town” (Ghost Town, USA 2008) from OutwardLink.net September 2009
“minor convergence” (Ghost Town, USA 2008) from OutwardLink.net September 2009
"Lost Arts" from OutwardLink.net September 2009
"The Buddha of Independence Day" (with Angelo Luna) from Outward Link.net September 2009
Limited edition broadside of Christopher Luna's poem "message from the vessel in a dream," available for purchase from the Center for Book Arts in NYC
"Steve Buscemi" by DystopiaOne featuring Christopher Luna
Excerpt from "Burning Word Triad" and profile by Tacoma poet Tammy Robacker from the Weekly Volcano April 22, 2009
XCP Streetnotes Winter 2003: "Maple and South 5th Ave."
XCP Streetnotes Winter 2003: "Richmond Hill, Queens"
XCP Streetnotes Spring 2001
Exquisite Corpse Issue 7
Profile from "Here Comes Everybody: Writers on Writing"
Made Up Movement: “Recovered Cut-Up For John Patsynski April 4, 1999”
Made Up Movement: “Secret messages recovered from the asphalt in the Secret Passageway (March 2007)”
"After Visions of Cody:" A Poem and Collage for Jack Kerouac April 25, 2022
Symbolically Potent / Existential Transcencence: A Poem and Collage for Angelo's Birthday, March 30, 2022

Articles About Christopher Luna's Poetry, Art, and Community Organizing Work

"A Cluster of Flies: Conversations with Writers" by Kirby Light for The Subtopian, Issue 19, August 2013
"A Poetry Walk Surprise" by J.I. Kleinberg for The Poetry Department (aka The Boynton Blog), January 13, 2017
"Blind man sees eclipse through others’ words" by Scott Hewitt for the Columbian August 26, 2017
"Book tells story of open mic sessions" about the publication of Ghost Town Poetry from the Columbian June 2011
"Brakhage and McClure correspondence published" from the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog May 17, 2011
"Christopher Luna Explains What It Means to Be Clark County’s First Poet Laureate" by Alia Stearns for Clark County Talk August 29, 2017
"Clark County poet laureate spreads the word, promotes love of literary arts" by Dean Baker for the Oregonian, January 13, 2014
"Clark's Growing Literary Community" by Maureen Andrade for the Columbian, June 21, 2015
"Make Poetry Your Life: Being with Christopher Luna" by Zosia Watr for Folks Press Magazine, Issue 12, May/June 2014
"Message from a teeming mind" by Scott Hewitt for the Columbian December 8, 2018
"Pair of Poets Honored as Laureates" from the Columbian March 11, 2013
"Poet laureate for Vancouver named" from the Columbian newspaper, Vancouver, WA January 21, 2011
"Poetry Family Built on Words" by Stover E. Harger III for the Columbian February 1, 2014
"Poetry Moves: Young poets’ works adorn C-Tran buses" from the Columbian, July 3, 2016
"State's Poet Laureate to Visit Clark County This Week" by Scott Hewitt for the Columbian April 23, 2017
"The Poet Laureate of Ghost Town, USA" by Ashley Heffernan for St. Joseph's College Magazine April 2014
"Vancouver man’s poem included in anthology" from the Columbian (Vancouver, WA) Friday, September 30, 2011
"You've Got Male: Angst Gallery male form exhibit takes thoughtful look at taboo" by Scott Hewitt for the Columbian January 6, 2017
Blogger Louise Wynn talks about taking a poetry workshop from Christopher Luna in April 2013
Interview with Writing Center consultant Richard O'Brien for The Centerpoint, Washington State University Vancouver, March 2013
Review of "GHOST TOWN, USA" by Full of Crow Editor Lynn Alexander
The Poetry Closet: Christopher Luna interviewed by Igor Brezhnev for Nailed Magazine, April 30, 2021
David Madgalene on Exchanging Wisdom June 24, 2022
"Vancouver’s Luna family always at home with poetry" by Monika Spykerman for The columbian, January 5, 2023
Where Words Gather: Exploring the Southwest Washington Poetry Scene by Emily Cruz, Vancouver Family Magazine December 2025

Video

It's Animal But Merciful Anthology Reading February 27, 2021
Gina Williams, dan raphael, and Christopher Luna read for Annie Bloom's Books, September 14, 2020
Christopher Luna and Dystopia One perform "Steve Buscemi" and "spastic colon kidney stone blues" at Voodoo Lounge, Long Beach, Long Island in 1997
Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic on Zoom April 9, 2020
Christopher Luna profiled by People of Vancouver, WA
Christopher Luna reads from Message from the Vessel in a Dream at Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic December 10, 2018 [SECOND SET]. Video by Mike G
Christopher Luna reads from Message from the Vessel in a Dream at Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic December 10, 2018 [FIRST SET] . Video by Mike G
Christopher Luna reads "Message from the Vessel in a Dream" in a video by Alisha Jucevic for the Columbian, December 8, 2018
Christopher Luna and duo B. at Another Read Through (Portland, OR) August 3, 2016 by Tiffany Burba
"Welcome to Life, Motherfucker" by Christopher Luna at Tony's Tavern, January 2, 2017. Video by Tiffany Burba
Interview with Christopher Luna by the Clark College Independent May 6, 2016
Sunday Sessions at High End Market Place in Vancouver, WA featuring River Twain and Christopher Luna April 2015. Video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
March Music Moderne Presents Ghost Town Poetry and Jazz at Niche Wine Bar March 15, 2014. Video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
Christopher Luna reads at Burnt Tongue 16 at Crush Bar in Portland, OR on May 21, 2016. Video by Adam Strong
"Ghost Town Revue:" Christopher, Angelo, and Toni Luna read at Paper Tiger Coffee Roasters December 16, 2015. Video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
Christopher Luna reads at a benefit to support his work as Clark County Poet Laureate sponsored by the Clark County Arts Commission on December 4, 2015. Video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
Christopher Luna reads his poetry with electronic musician Mike Lastra and drummer David Ritchie at All Colors of the Dark, Plew's Brews, Portland, OR October 3, 2015. Video by Tiffany Burba Schramm
Christopher Luna reads Allen Ginsberg as well as his own work at the 60th Anniversary of the Six Gallery Reading at the Independent Publishing Resource Center, October 7, 2015. Video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm. Begins with Pancho Savery reading Philip Whalen. Dan Raphael introduces Luna at 9:45
Christopher Luna at The Ol' Tony's Talkin' To at Tony's Tavern in Portland, OR on October 5, 2015. Video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm, introduction by Dennis McBride
Christopher Luna and Five Guys Playing Jazz at CouvFest NW August 28, 2014. Video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
A Reading and Reception for Poetry in the Shops at Angst Gallery, Vancouver , WA June 27, 2014. Video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
Christopher Luna at Them's Fightin' Words hosted by Sean Aaron Bowers, St. Johns Booksellers May 30, 2014. Video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm.
Excerpt of Christopher Luna reading "His skeleton falls apart" accompanied by Matt Brislawn at Niche Wine and Art Bar, Vancouver, WA May 24, 2014 by Ian Caton
32 Seconds: "The Really Amazing, Magical Thing:" Christopher Luna reads "Some Angels Can't Dance" with Tyler Burba on piano at Niche February 15, 2014, from Folks Press May 16 2014
Christopher Luna and bassist Julio Appling at Niche Wine and Art Bar in Vancouver, WA April 26, 2014 by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
River Twain performs at Christopher Luna's Spring Address at Vancouver Library April 3, 2014 by Tiffany Burba-Schramm part one
Christopher Luna's Spring Address at Vancouver Library with River Twain and ASL interpreter Brittany Schramm April 3, 2014 part two by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
Christopher Luna's Spring Address at Vancouver Library with River Twain and ASL interpreter Brittany Schramm part one by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
Christopher Luna and pianist/composer Beth Karp at Angst Gallery in Vancouver, WA on March 22, 2014 by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
Christopher Luna and Tyler Burba at Niche Wine and Art Bar in Vancouver, WA on February 15, 2014 by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
Christopher Luna and multi-instrumentalist David Chaparro at VOCA February 24, 2014 by Tiffany Burba-Schramm Part Two
Christopher Luna and multi-instrumentalist David Chaparro at VOCA February 24, 2014 by Tiffany Burba-Schramm Part One
Christopher Luna and harpist Jennifer Pratt-Walter at Niche Wine and Art bar in Vancouver, WA December 28, 2013. Video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm
Christopher Luna and Lincoln's Beard at the book launch for Jonathon Kendall's "The Evolution of Strangers" at Ginger Pop in Vancouver, WA November 4, 2013 (video by Tiffany Burba-Schramm)
Retirement Open House for County Administrator Bill Barron featuring Clark County Poet Laureate Christopher Luna (9:10) September 5, 2013 (Video by CVTV)
"Cities of the Dead," a film of David Madgalene's poem of the same name, featuring Christopher Luna
Clark County Poet Laureate Talks About His Inspiration and Reads One of His Poems from the Columbian March 11, 2013
Clark County Poet Laureate Christopher Luna's inaugural address and performance at the Vancouver Library March 12, 2013 (Video by CVTV)
Innovators of Vancouver, Season 2, a film portrait of Christopher Luna by Chris Martin
Christopher Luna reads excerpts from "more than we can bear," an investigative poem about 9/11, at Paper Tiger Coffee in Vancouver, WA September 16, 2010 (video by Olin Unterwegner)
Christopher Luna and pianist Beth Karp at Lan Su Chinese Garden (Portland, OR) October 5, 2013
Christopher Luna at Rose City Book Pub, July 3, 2021 (cell phone video)
emerging (again) Featuring Igor Brezhnev, Justin Rigamonti, Christopher Luna, Morgan Paige, and Becca Smolen at Rose City Book Pub July 3, 2021 (Zoom view)
Christopher Luna's YouTube Channel
Artist Talk for WHERE ARE WE GOING AND WHAT WILL WE DO WHEN WE GET THERE? at Art At The Cave, August 19, 2023
Christopher Luna reads "Perpetual Transfiguration" For Harry Smith and Stan Brakhage at Turn! Turn! Turn! in Portland, OR
2025 Humanities Washington Awards Ceremony
Christopher Luna reads "Symbolically Potent" at Second Shapes Bookstore, January 17, 2026
Christopher Luna reads "Videochat with My Self-Quarantined Son" at Second Shapes Bookstore, January 17, 2026
Celebration of Poetry: A Poetic Celebation of Community, The Magenta Theater, Vancouver, WA March 22, 2026
Christopher Luna and others read at The Stafford Challenge Conference, Lewis & Clark College, June 19, 2026

Podcasts and Audio

Christopher Luna interviewed by Claudia F. Savage & John Savage for Thick in the Throat, Honey July 2018
Christopher Luna interviewed by Sarah Arslanian for 5 Minutes of Good, January 23, 2016
Christopher Luna on Rich Lindsay's Lost and Found Radio, KBOO Portland Friday April 12, 2013
Audio from Jim Morrison open mic at the viewing party for The Doors documentary "When You're Strange" on July 30, 2010
"Steve Buscemi" and "Spastic Colon Kidney Stone Blues" by Christopher Luna and Dystopia One on iTunes
Audio and pics of Christopher Luna, Toni Partington, and others at Culture Control, Paper Tiger Coffee, Vancouver on January 16, 2010
Christopher Luna reads "Channel Z (circa 1989)," "YOUR SISTER, YOUR MOTHER, YOUR LOVER, YOUR FRIEND," "The Buddha of Independence Day," "Some Angels Can't Dance," "I am rooting for you all the way to eternity," "almost missed important call," and selections from "Ghost Town, USA" live at Craft in the Village in Vancouver, produced and broadcast by Cara Cottingham for KOUG Radio Friday, July 3, 2009
Podcast of a reading at Melissa Sillitoe’s Show and Tell Gallery in Portland on August 7, 2008
Podcast of a reading with trumpeter Eric Padget at the Three Friends Coffeehouse in Portland, OR on Monday, October 20, 2008
Christopher Luna on Chris Martin's Getting Work to Work podcast March 15, 2024
Christopher and Angelo Luna on KBOO Radio's Talking Earth October 17, 2022
Toni Partington & Christopher Luna on KBOO Radio’s Poetry and Everything, hosted by Judith Arcana April 24, 2017
Christopher Luna interviewed by Marianela Medrano for the podcast What a Word is Worth, January 10, 2024
I'm Into this Place: Poetry As Radical Resistance with Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic emcees Christopher Luna and Morgan Paige

Rain Taxi Review of Books Reviews and Interviews by Christopher Luna

Review of Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance by Christopher Luna (Spring 2021)
Review of The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman by Christopher Luna (Spring 2020)
Review of Nobody's Fool: the Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead by Bill Griffith (Winter 2019/2020)
Review of BEAT: The Latter Days of the Beat Generation by Andy Clausen (Fall 2019)
Review of M Train by Patti Smith (Winter 2016)
Review of Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon (Spring 2015)
Review of Existential America by George Cotkin
"With Words and Song," an interview with John Trudell by Christopher Luna (Fall 2009)
"Frenzied Sweetness," an interview with Michael Rothenberg and David Meltzer by Christopher Luna (Spring 2010)
Review of A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn
Review of Portions of a Wine-Stained Notebook by Charles Bukowski
Review of In the Pines by Alice Notley
Review of Almost Paradise: New and Selected Poems and Translations by Sam Hamill
Review of I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
Review of Devotional Cinema by Nathaniel Dorsky
Review of Chances Are Few by Lorenzo Thomas
Review of Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies edited by Russ Kick
Review of three books by or about Allen Ginsberg
Review of I Made An Accident by Kevin Sampsell (Spring 2023)
Review of YOU by Rosa Alcalá

Art by Christopher Luna

Poetry and Art in Loving Memory of Diane di Prima November 7, 2020
Alphabet Soup featuring collages by Christopher Luna April 9, 2020
Dirty Chai Issue Ten, Summer 2016, featuring three collages by Christopher Luna
"RE-EMERGENCE," "EQUINOX," and "a dirty word, but it comes out clean" poetry trading cards by Christopher Luna
Sketches of the particpants in Dan Nelson's Paper Tiger Coffee Open Mic November 18, 2010 by Christopher Luna
Christopher Luna and Toni Partington's contributions to "Community Constellation" a Vancouver, WA collaborative art piece
Images from the opening reception for "SKIN," a show at North Bank Gallery in Vancouver, WA featuring art and poetry by Christopher Luna and Toni Partington
Sketch of Alex Birkett reading at St. Johns Booksellers May 28, 2010
Images from "SKIN" featuring poetry and art by Christopher Luna and Toni Partington, North Bank Artists Gallery June 4, 2010
"Words:" Art by Christopher Luna and others at Angst Gallery in Vancouver, WA September 2009
Lynn Alexander's review of Christopher Luna's collage art from Full of Crow April 2009
Christopher Luna's postcard collage art gallery featured on Full of Crow April 2009
Christopher Luna's Art Featured in HERE ARE WE GOING AND WHAT WILL WE DO WHEN WE GET THERE? at Art At The Cave August 2-25, 2023

Ghost Town Poems

GHOST TOWN, USA January/February 2010
Ghost Town, USA January/February/March 2009
Ghost Town, USA March/April 2009
Ghost Town, USA/ The People on the Bus May 2009

Partners in Truth and Beauty

Partners in Truth and Beauty April 2012: An Interview with Charles Potts
Partners in Truth and Beauty September 2011: An Interview with Sean Patrick Hill, author of The Imagined Field and Interstitial
Partners in Truth and Beauty March 2011: An Interview with Sage Cohen, author of Writing the Life Poetic and The Productive Writer
Partners In Truth and Beauty February 2010: an Interview with Derek Fenner, poet, artist, and co-founder of Bootstrap Press
Partners In Truth and Beauty April 2010: An Interview with Ryan Gallagher, Bootstrap Press co-founder and translator of Catullus

Video of the Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic by Tiffany Burba

PDX Art Now Magazine by Richard Schemmerer August 17, 2015
Christopher Luna reads at Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic on May 14, 2015
Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic at Cover to Cover Books (Vancouver, WA) January 9, 2014 Part Three, including WA Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken
Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic at Cover to Cover Books (Vancouver, WA) January 9, 2014 Part Two, including WA Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken
Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic at Cover to Cover Books (Vancouver, WA) January 9, 2014
Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic at Cover to Cover Books November 14, 2013, Part Two
Featured Reader Maggie Chula at Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic November 14, 2013
Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic at Cover to Cover Books November 14, 2013, Part One
Toni Partington reads "Hit & Run" for Hudson's Bay teacher Gordon Patterson at the Ghost town Poetry Open Mic September 12, 2013
Mike G at Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic September 12, 2013
The first thirty minutes of the Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic from September 12, 2013 with Christopher Luna ("Miracle Fair" by Wislawa Szymborska), Tiffany Schramm (accompanied by Brittany Schramm), April M Bullard, Rob Gourley, Rhonda Grace, Toni Partington, Jan Ice, and Joyce Colson
Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic at Cover to Cover Books (Vancouver, WA) , October 10, 2013, part one
Featured Reader Rob Gourley at Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic October 10, 2013
Featured Reader klipschutz plus open mic readers at Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic October 10, 2013
Open mic readers from the last half hour of the Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic October 10, 2013

Writing the Life Poetic

Archive for Christopher Luna's WTLP Column "The Poetics of Community"
WTLP E-Zine featuring "How to Launch an Open Mic Poetry Reading" by Christopher Luna (October 2010)
WTLP National Poetry Month E-Zine featuring an untitled poem beginning with the line "Ignore the old babble" by Christopher Luna (April 2010)
WTLP E-Zine featuring the poem, "The best things in life are better than any damn movie" by Christopher Luna (December 2009)
WTLP E-Zine Featuring "The Poetics of Community: Is Poetry Inherently Dissident?" by Christopher Luna (January 2010)
WTLP E-Zine featuring “The Poetics of Community: Finding a Poetic Soulmate” by Christopher Luna (Autumn 2009)
Sage Cohen
Writing the Life Poetic Blog by Sage Cohen
WTLP E-Zine featuring “Poetic Lineage and the Saturation Job” by Christopher Luna (Summer 2009)
WTLP E-Zine featuring “The Poetics of Community: The Importance of Gathering with Likeminded People” by Christopher Luna (May 2009)

New York Journal of Books

Christopher Luna's review of Julie Carr's Sarah -- Of Fragments and Lines

Christopher receives a tip of the pin

from Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead (November 2003)

Vancouver, WA Poetry, Art, and Music

"Art in Uptown Village," May 30, 2010 Columbian article featuring The Space and The Stray Gallery
"Bookstores try to read future," March 28, 2010 Columbian article about how local, independent bookstores are dealing with the recession
Anni Becker (photography)
Bike Me! Vancouver
Christy Lochrie
Clark County Historical Society and Museum
Cover to Cover Books
Dengerink Art Supply
Duke DeRoschers
Jim Templeton, pianist
Joann Boswell
KOUG: Washington State University Vancouver
Lekker Entertainment
Lincoln's Beard
Niche A Wine and Art bar
North Next Entertainment/Sole Provider (Conscious Hip Hop)
Paper Tiger Coffee
Rich Lindsay's Kill Ugly Radio
Shameless Productions (Cara Cottingham)
The Brautigan Library at the Clark County Historical Museum
The Student Loan
Toni Partington

Portland, OR Poetry, Music, and Art

Barbara La Morticella (KBOO FM's Talking Earth)
Becca Yenser
Dan Raphael (Language Knows)
David Matthews, Man of Letters
Deb Scott
Figures of Speech Reading Series, hosted by Constance Hall and Steve Williams
Gordon Lee, jazz pianist
Kristin Berger
Luke Lefler's podcasts from Three Friends and Show and Tell Gallery
Matt Meighan
Melissa Sillitoe (Show and Tell Gallery, Three Friends Reading Series)
Olinka Broadfoot (sculptor)
Olinka Broadfoot's blog
Q Poetry

Ed Sanders and Charles Olson

"Projective Verse" by Charles Olson (1950)
The Fugs
Investigative Poetry by Ed Sanders

Writing

A.K. Allin
Allen Ginberg Project
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg Photography Collection at Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at University of Toronto
Amiri Baraka
Anne Waldman
Anne-Marie Mara (Christopher Luna's cousin) R.I.P.
April Younglove
Archipelago Books
Autonomedia
Beats in Kansas
Belladonna Reading Series and Press
Big Bridge
Bootstrap Productions (Lowell, MA)
Bowery Poetry Club (NYC)
Brautigan Bibliography and Archive
Cadillac Cicatrix
Charles Potts and The Temple Bookstore (Walla Walla, WA)
Chiron Review (KS)
Christina Katz, The Prosperous Writer
City Lights (San Francisco)
David Meltzer
Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima Revolutionary Letters Revolutionary Poems
Dirty Queer (X-Rated Open Mic, Portland, OR)
Dorianne Laux
EcoPoetics
Ed Coletti's "No Money In Poetry"
Ed Coletti's P3 (Politics, Philosophy, Poetry)
Eileen Myles
Electronic Poetry Center
Exact change: Classics of Experimental Literature
Exquisite Corpse (Published & Edited by Andrei Codrescu)
Full of Crow Press Blog
Full of Crow, an online collection of poetry, art, and fiction edited by Lynn Alexander and Aleathia Drehmer
Interzone: The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Blog
Jack McCarthy
Jacket Magazine
Jason Mashak (expat in Prague)
Jean Bartlett (Jean's Magazines: interviews with artists)
Jennifer Barone
Jerome Rothenberg's "Poems and Poetics"
John Burgess
Joy Harjo
Judith Baumel (poet and translator, Bronx, NY; Adelphi University)
Kazim Ali
Lilith Saintcrow
Lit Fuse Workshop in Tieton
Martin Espada
Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek
Museum of American Poetics (MAP)
Naropa Poetics Audio Archive
Naropa Summer Writing Program Blog
Natascha Bruckner
Neeli Cherkovski
New Way Media
NW Poetry Events Calendar (compiled by Debbie Stone)
Obscurestore
Olson Now Blog
Oregon State Poets Association
Outsider Writers Collective
Outward Link
Pacific Northwest Writers Association
Patti Smith
Paul Nelson (SPLAB, Organic Poetry)
Paulann Petersen
Phillip Hackett & The Poet's Gallery (San Francisco)
Poem-A-Tacoma Blog by Tammy Robacker
Poet and Photographer Lorraine Healy
Poetry Night (Bellingham. WA)
Poets & Writers Magazine Classifieds
POETSWest: Poetry in the Northwest
Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project
Puget Sound Poetry Connection
Rainy Nights Press (Portland, OR)
Randy Roark
RE/Search
Reggie Marra and Marianela Medrano-Marra (seminars, workshops, and retreats)
Rick Vrana
ROCKPILE Website and Blog featuring David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg
Sage Cohen
Samuel Beckett
San Francisco Art and Poetry Calendar
Script Creative (Official Website for Danika Dinsmore)
Sean Patrick Hill
Shanna Germain
Shanna Germain's travels in the US and beyond
Shelldance Orchid Gardens (Pacifica, CA)
Shin Yu Pai
Show and Tell Gallery
Speak Your Soul: Poetry Events (Tacoma, WA, Hawaii, and NYC)
St. Johns Booksellers (Portland, OR)
Tammy Robacker (Tacoma, WA)
The Accidental Novelist (Danika Dinsmore)
The Henry Miller Library (Big Sur, CA)
The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Boulder, CO)
The Poetry Project (NYC)
Tiel Aisha Ansari (Knocking From Inside)
Tom Raworth
Toni Partington
Turiya Autry
TWICE TOLD BOOKS (Guerneville, CA,)
VoiceCatcher (Anthology of NW Women Writers)
VOX PDX
Walt Whitman 150
Walt Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center in Huntington, Long Island
Washington Poets Association
Whidbey Island Writers Association
Writers' Dojo (Portland, OR)
Writing the Life Poetic Blog (hosted by Sage Cohen)

Art

Amy Vitale (photography/photojournalism)
Angst Gallery
Anni Becker (photography)
Art Crimes (graffiti)
Art Up
BarnStormers
Bomb It (International Graffiti Documentary)
David Choe
Disinformation
Duke DeRoschers (sculpture)
Full of Crow, an online collection of poetry, art, and fiction edited by Lynn Alexander and Aleathia Drehmer
Glen E. Friedman
Guerrilla Media
James Honzik
Juxtapoz Magazine
Larry Keenan (photography of the counterculture)
Leah Lubin
Luis Toledo
Mel Perrigo
Michael Brown, San Francisco sculptor, designer and installation artist
Michael Smith
Mike Giant
PEKAR PROJECT
Rinpa Eshidan (Japanese Art Crew)
Rob Schouten Gallery at Whidbey Island's Greenbank Farm
Ron Jones
Sara Schnelle (iconography)
Seonna Hong
Shepard Fairey
Stan Brakhage
Tattoos Day (NYC Ink)
The Skullz Press (Mike Giant)
ThREe19 on Deviant Art
USUGROW
Visions from Void (Mixed Media Art by Lorrainn Karnes and Robert Zozaya)
Wes Wilson (60s Psychedelic Poster Artist)
Zippy the Pinhead by Bill Griffith

Film

UBUWEB film
Stan Brakhage (site curated by Fred Camper)
Phil Solomon
Peel Slowly (Stephen Altobello)
Onion Underwater, a film by Paul Yates
Jonas Mekas
Automat Pictures (Jeffrey Schwarz)

Music/Radio

Allan Alexander
Charles Mingus
Cover to Cover with poet Jack Foley (KPFA)
Disappear Incompletely
DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid
DJ Sambarella on Viva Radio
DJ Sambarella's Gruv Podcast
Dystopia One in the New York Times (2000)
Jason Levis (Drummer and Composer)
John Wilkes Booth
Kalakendra Society for the Performing Arts of India (Portland, OR)
KBOO Portland
Little Steven's Underground Garage
Naropa Poetics Audio Archive
Orkestar Zirkonium
Poets West on KSER
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