We think you'll enjoy these examples of recently published work. All items first published in The Portland Review Literary Journal.

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Winter 2008

Catalogue of Surrogates
By Allen Kellerstrass
(poem)

Natchez
By Christopher Chambers
(fiction)

Open House
By Mary Milstead
(fiction)

Pueblo Piedra
By Mary Lyn Maiscott
(fiction)

Tocata or Fugue
By Laura Donnelly
(poem)

Spring 2007

C.J.'s Mallet
By Adrian Z. Dorris
(fiction)

The Last Of The Streakers
By Wm Meyer
(poem)

The Bridge
By Robert Anthony Siegel
(fiction)

Under Lights Thrown Down
By Eleni Sikelianos
(poem)

Some Kind of Happy Life
By Nova Ren Suma
(fiction)

Thought Bubble
By Joel Dailey
(poem)

iRiS
By Richardj Parfitt
(fiction)

A Cubist's Madrigal
By N. Anne Highlands Tiley
(poem)

Gazebos
By Holly Wilson
(fiction)

An Interview with Stacey Richter
By Aaron Gilbreath
(interview)

Fall 2006

**FC2 Writer's Edge & Portland Review Award for Innovative Writing**
You Saw Me Standing Alone
By Kris Saknussemm
(fiction)

**FC2 Writer's Edge & Portland Review Award for Innovative Writing**
Invoice
By Joel Weinbrot
(fiction)

In the Country I Call Home
By Neil Aiken
(poem)

EATING
By Melinda Misuraca
(fiction)

How to Start a Cult
By Mark Wagenaar
(poem)

Hey Joe - The Jimi Hendrix Experience: A Riff
By Perry Glasser
(memoir)

Metolious River
By Lori Huskey
(poem)

Four Hundred and One
By Phong Nguyen
(fiction)

Wish You Were Here!
By Andrew Michael Roberts
(poem)

Water Filter
By Martha Clarkson
(fiction)

Metamorphoses
By Lynn Domina
(poem)

Spring 2006

Rainbow Party
By Matt Williamson
(fiction)

Laura Adds Botox to Her Beauty Regimen
By David J. Pickering
(poem)

Sir, why is your nose so tall?
By Matthew M. Quick
(fiction)

Surreal Descent
By Marc Belcastro
(poem)

Photos
A selection of photos from the Spring 2006 edition

Redwood
By Rob Ehle
(fiction)

Odysseus' Daughters
By Janée J. Baugher
(poem)

Here and Then
By Carla Panciera
(poem)

Unbuilding
By Brian Doyle
(fiction)

Thoughts of an Aging Man with a Hand Tremor
While Trimming His Beard
By Dick Sanders
(poem)

The Blue Intercession of Erin
By Sean Thomas Dougherty
(poem)

Late Summer
By Yvonne C. Murphy
(poem)

Fall 2005

Photos
A selection of photos from the Fall 2005 edition
By Julie Thi Underhill and Jeanetta Richardson

Big Aimee's Pink Rattlesnake Boots
By Stephanie Dickinson
(fiction)

A River Slouched Through Surly Fields
By Eric Rawson
(poem)

Kilchowski Kilchowski, Prodigal Son
By Steve Goerger
(fiction)

A Radio for Slow Nights
By William Archila
(poem)

Latin for Rage
By Jeannie Galeazzi
(fiction)

For a Fallen One
By Eric Rawson
(poem)

The Shadow People
By Stephan Clark
(fiction)

Sanitized
By John Popielaski
(poem)

The Courtship of Eddie's Father
By Alex Behr
(fiction)

Slot
By Chris Souza
(poem)

Spring/Summer 2005

Holland Breaks the Law
By Emily Miller
(fiction)

Hangover
By Matthew Byrne
(poem)

The Humming Machine in My Dreamboard Heart
By Kerrin Piché
(fiction)

Ephemera
By Ryan G. Van Cleave
(poem)

The Mercy Baby
By Robin Romm
(fiction)

The Liar
By Celeste Thompson
(poem)

Cottonwood
By Harmon Chance
(fiction)

Neolithic
By Rob Cook
(poem)

Scotty Buys a Pair of Scrubs
By David Moldawer
(fiction)

Letter to Myself at Twenty-Two, 1991
By Rob Cook
(poem)

Two Sisters Swim in a Small Locked Box
By Malinda Markham
(poem)

Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues
By Tao Lin
(fiction)

Winter/Spring 2005

The Brewery
By Lawrence Cady
(fiction)

Charles and Diego
By Lee Oleson
(fiction)

The One Problem
By Jack Garrett
(fiction)

The Fat Innkeeper
By Robert Solomon
(fiction)



Summer/Fall 2004

Before and Again
By Larissa Amir
(fiction)

Jellyfish
By Evan Peterson
(poem)

SMACK
By Marie Drennan
(fiction)

B25
By Simon Perchik
(poem)

River Rising
By Lisa Zimmerman
(poem)

Canals
By Walter Cummins
(fiction)

Shimmer in the City
By Richard N. Bentley
(poem)

Twenty Eight Flavors of Stupid
By John A. Tisdale
(fiction)

Driving
By James McCachren
(fiction)

The Sinkhole
By John Blair
(fiction)

Lake Bus
By Keir Graff
(fiction)

New Eyes for the Needy
By Michael McWey
(fiction)

Photos
Facets of Cuba are captured in this photo essay by Niki Polyocan

Winter 2004

The Martini in Winter
By Charles Jensen
(poem)

There is Smoke
By Catherine Walton Dent
(fiction)

To the Muse
By Ian Haight
(poem)

First Snow
By David Allen Evans
(fiction)

Floating
By Christopher Moylan
(poem)

Elementary Photography
By Tupelo Hassman
(fiction)

Night Pieces
By Alison Jauss
(poem)

Fall 2003

Always the Last to Leave the Party
By Patrick Tobin
(fiction)

He Comes Around
By J.C. Dickey-Chasins
(fiction)

At the Hotel Scharm
By Brian Turner
(poem)

Hiding in the Graveyard
By Brian Turner
(poem)

Teaching Seong to Drive
By Rita Kasperek
(fiction)

Obituary
By Joe Pitkin
(poem)

Remembering the Dead
By Tracey Watts
(poem)

Summer 2003
In Mutable Scenes
by Aaryn Richards
(poem)

Jie
by Katy Williams
(fiction)

Labor Day
by Elizabeth Keller Whitehurst
(fiction)

Speaking In Tongues
by Jeri Edwards
(poem)

Spring 2003
The Commuter
by Art Nahill
(poem)