The theme for this issue is TRANCE. Consider the trance and lay your own one on us. The word and the state it references is mysterious, with many possible meanings and applications, show us how you take it. Think of trance not just in content, but form—how can your language or characters weave one? How can your visuals spellbind us?

We are seeking artists showcasing 2D and 3D works in any medium (so long as it's documented suitably for print). Artists can submit up to four images, formatted as .tif or .jpg files, CMYK color profile, and at least 300 DPI at a 6" x 9" size. Please label files as: LAST NAME_TITLE OF WORK. Work can be new or pre-existing, or a combo! Please keep your cover letter brief—just let us know where you live and include a short artist's bio or statement about your work. You can also tell us your thoughts on condiments, if you desire.

Submissions window for art will be open December 15th-29th. We’re excited to see your art! Mesmerize us!

The theme for this issue is TRANCE. Consider the trance and lay your own one on us. The word and the state it references is mysterious, with many possible meanings and applications, show us how you take it. Think of trance not just in content, but form—how can your language or characters weave one? How can your visuals spellbind us?

We are seeking artists showcasing 2D and 3D works in any medium (so long as it's documented suitably for print). Artists can submit up to four images, formatted as .tif or .jpg files, CMYK color profile, and at least 300 DPI at a 6" x 9" size. Please label files as: LAST NAME_TITLE OF WORK. Work can be new or pre-existing, or a combo! Please keep your cover letter brief—just let us know where you live and include a short artist's bio or statement about your work. You can also tell us your thoughts on condiments, if you desire.

Submissions window for art will be open December 15th-29th. We’re excited to see your art! Mesmerize us!

Join Frances at fellow Buckman neighborhood resident, Up Up Books for this unique workshop to further your appreciation of personal fiction and your own writing practice.

Many Seasons and Writing the Self

Cost: $25.00/person. Includes a signed copy of the book. RSVP Required.

In accordance with the recent launch of the novel Many Seasons, this will be a workshop and process talk.

In this class, we will talk about the nuances of writing the self (sometimes known as autofiction) and what is involved with writing, editing and publishing a book of this kind. There will also be time set aside to practice writing the self (Frances will provide direction). We will discuss some of my favorite “writing the self” titles and they will also be available for purchase. Please note that this is not a traditional workshop and you will not get feedback on your work. 

Frances Badalamenti is the author of the novels I Don’t Blame You and Salad Days. Her most recent novel Many Seasons (Buckman Publishing, November 12th, 2024), explores the intersection of selfhood, motherhood and grief. Her essays, stories and interviews can be found at The New Yorker, The Believer Magazine, BOMB Magazine, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. She teaches writing workshops and works individually as a mentor for writers. Frances lives in Portland, Oregon. 

Space is limited to ten writers.

Register via Eventbrite here!

The theme for this issue is TRANCE. Consider the trance and lay your own one on us. The word and the state it references is mysterious, with many possible meanings and applications, show us how you take it. Think of trance not just in content, but form—how can your language or characters weave one? How can your visuals spellbind us?

Writing of all genres, styles, and lengths (up to 5,000 words) is welcome. Poets, please send no more than five poems, with each poem starting on a new page. Prose writers, please adhere to the 5,000-word limit. This total can include multiple interconnected or serial pieces. 

Please submit .docx or .pdf files only, use a readable font, and keep your cover letter brief—please just let us know where you live and include a short author's bio. When it comes to bios, we'd rather hear who you are than read a long list of prior publications, maybe tell us what your favorite condiment is (we're partial to Vegemite.) 

Submissions window for writing will be open December 1st-14th. We really look forward to reading your words! Entrance us! 

Join us at the Buckman Mothership (inside Honey Latte Cafe) to celebrate the launch of Rain or Coincidences, a visual novel by Xinyu Liu. There will be a short reading/performance of scenes from the novel accompanied by projections of the photography featured in the book. Our last book party of 2024!

The theme for this issue is TRANCE. Consider the trance and lay your own one on us. The word and the state it references is mysterious, with many possible meanings and applications, show us how you take it. Think of trance not just in content, but form—how can your language or characters weave one? How can your visuals spellbind us?

Writing of all genres, styles, and lengths (up to 5,000 words) is welcome. Poets, please send no more than five poems, with each poem starting on a new page. Prose writers, please adhere to the 5,000-word limit. This total can include multiple interconnected or serial pieces. 

Please submit .docx or .pdf files only, use a readable font, and keep your cover letter brief—please just let us know where you live and include a short author's bio. When it comes to bios, we'd rather hear who you are than read a long list of prior publications, maybe tell us what your favorite condiment is (we're partial to Vegemite.) 

Submissions window for writing will be open December 1st-14th. We really look forward to reading your words! Entrance us! 

Join us at new-ish Portland indie bookshop, Lost Avenue, to celebrate the launch of Many Seasons, a novel by Frances Badalamenti with photography by Aaron Wessling. Hear from a suite of local Portland readers, (fiction and poetry) get your copy of Many Seasons signed, shop books and records, and see an exhibition of photography from Aaron Wessling, whose time-based photo series illustrates the novel. Light snacks and drinks served. Come out and support the local scene in the dark post-daylight savings nights!

Reading Lineup: Alissa Hattman, Sara Jaffe, Emily Kendal Frey, and of course, Frances Badalamenti

Saturday, November 16th

6:30pm-8:30pm, Readings run 7-8.

**Trance Poetics** is both a practice and a lens. It’s a discipline that examines poetry as a vehicle for the trance state and also urgently asks what becomes possible with the form when we deprioritize traditional meaning as the primary value that’s being written towards. Such poetics seek, instead, to access and emulate the trance state from alternate angles—often being motivated more so by image, sound, and feeling. Each of the three class meetings will correspond with one of these frameworks to explore the imagistic, sonic, and emotional fields of poetry.

The class will be a blend of generative games and activities, group discussions and meaning making and workshop style feedback-sharing. Writers in all genres are welcome, as long as you’re willing to try your hand at writing a few poems. This would be great for stagnated or thirsty practices as the aim is to lower the stakes to creation, approach writing from an experimental place, and open up new avenues of composition rather than just sitting down to write “about” something.

You should leave the class with a few new poems and a suite of techniques to keep the creative channel flowing.

Thursday evenings: November 7th / 7:30-9:45 & November 14th / 7:30-9:45 & November 21st / 7:30-10:00

Led by poet and Buckman Journal Editor Emmi Greer. $75-$200 Sliding Scale.

Spots still available, e-mail emmi [at] buckmanpublishing.com to claim yours!

Curriculum Includes:

Janet Frame

Frank X. Gaspar

Harmony Holiday

Bhanu Kapil

Mark Leidner

Nathaniel Mackey

Precious Okoyomon

Kristin Prevallet

Mary Ruefle

Gertrude Stein

Bianca Stone

Salman Toor 

Mike Vos is a photographer, visual artist, and musician from Portland, OR (and former two-time Assets for Artists resident). Somewhere in Another Place distills more than three years of work and countless miles traveled across the continent into 49 double-exposure photographs which represent nearly 100 distinct locations. We are invited into a procession of carefully invented places, to witness their visual echoes, to see their waters mirror ancient shapes. Here you’ll find vessels mixed with mountains, waterfalls framed by windows, stalactites crossed with a satellite dish, geologic formations stitched with ephemeral human structures on their way out of existence.

Vos’ imagery is composed, overlaid, and captured manually on a large-format camera, composing new terrains of landscape and the built environment like some visionary game of Tetris. Mike Vos presents a new sort of landscape photography for the Anthropocene, one that is a practice of both time and place, and which seeks transcendence by altering what and how we see.

About the Artist:

Drawing inspiration from various literary movements and themes, Mike Vos uses traditional and experimental 4×5 film techniques, multi-channel video, field recordings and instrumentation to craft complex narratives that advocate for the preservation of wild spaces. Constantly pushing the capabilities of film photography, analog video, and sound, Vos creates immersive experiences to draw viewers into surreal representations of physical places. Somewhere in Another Place is his first book.

First Thursday: Mike Vos in Conversation With Liza Faktor at Powell’s Books

Mike Vos presents a new sort of landscape photography, one for the Anthropocene, one that is a practice of both time and place, and one which seeks contextual transcendence by altering what and how we see. Somewhere in Another Place (Buckman Publishing) distills more than three years of work and countless miles traveled across the continent into 49 double exposure photographs made in-camera with no digital intervention, representing nearly 100 distinct locations. We are invited into a procession of carefully invented places, to witness their visual echoes, to see their waters mirror ancient shapes. Here you’ll find vessels mixed with mountains, waterfalls framed by windows, stalactites crossed with a satellite dish, geologic formations stitched with ephemeral human structures on their way out of existence. Because all imagery is composed, overlaid, and captured manually on a large format camera, Vos plays an existential Tetris of fitting together immersive new terrains and opening a unique plane to consider the mesh of interactions between landscape, the built environment, and the self.

Vos will be joined in conversation by independent curator and visual artist Liza Faktor.

More info at: portlandzinesymposium.org

Buckman will not be tabling this day, but still highly encourages attendance as there are different vendors each day!

More info at: portlandzinesymposium.org

“Form.a is organized by Marcelo Fontana, Katherine Spinella, and Chris Ticas as parts of Wave, Well Well, and Carnation in collaboration with Oregon Contemporary. This fair will run in conjunction with Orbit Screenings exhibited at Orgon Contemporary from August 17th to October 5th.”

Join us at first Saturday for: Erinn Kathryn’s In the Frail

An exhibition of works and artist talk with Erinn Kathryn

Celebrate the release of Erinn’s constructed poems collection, and snag a signed copy of the book.

All-ages, free & ADA-accessible.

“Form.a is organized by Marcelo Fontana, Katherine Spinella, and Chris Ticas as parts of Wave, Well Well, and Carnation in collaboration with Oregon Contemporary. This fair will run in conjunction with Orbit Screenings exhibited at Orgon Contemporary from August 17th to October 5th.”

Buckman Publishing Presents: Erinn Kathryn’s In the Frail

Join us for an art reception and live recitation of works.

Celebrate the release of Erinn’s constructed poems collection, snag a copy of the book, and get it signed by the author!

Event from 6:00pm-9:00pm. Reading at 7:00pm.
Supplies for constructing your own poem provided.

All-ages, free & ADA-accessible.

Buckman Publishing is located inside of Honey Latte Café in Unit 4.

“Join us for this two-day celebration of publications! An entire weekend of events will include a book fair featuring some of Portland's best booksellers, an opportunity to upload your favorite magazines to The People’s Graphic Design Archive, a panel discussion, and an installation with hundreds of publications to interact with. See you there!”

www.volumesdesignlibrary.org

“Join us for this two-day celebration of publications! An entire weekend of events will include a book fair featuring some of Portland's best booksellers, an opportunity to upload your favorite magazines to The People’s Graphic Design Archive, a panel discussion, and an installation with hundreds of publications to interact with. See you there!”

www.volumesdesignlibrary.org

Join us for a reception celebrating the latest issue of Buckman Journal! Friday July 12th at 6pm in the parking lot behind Honey Latte Cafe. Meet the contributing artists & writers, the Buckman crew, and get to know yer local!

Buckman Publishing is located inside of Honey Latte Café in Suite 4. The space is ADA accessible and the event is free and open to all!

It’s back again! This year’s iteration of Portland Indie Book & Art Fair. Come support local independent publishers & artists selling their work directly to the public. There will be books, original art, zines, prints, ice cream, tee shirts, stickers, and lots more! Full details at portlandindie.com

Buckman Publishing is located inside of Honey Latte Café in Suite 4. The space is ADA accessible, family friendly, and the event is free and open to all!

The American classic, The Great Gatsby is now in the public domain and Buckman offers their critical edition 99 years after the original’s publication. Our edition features essays from Merridawn Duckler, Emmi Greer, and Rich Perin; and original illustrations by Ellen Robinette. Join us at Honey Latte Café for a reading from the book and a Gatsby-inspired party, come sip some bubbly and celebrate!

Buckman Publishing is located inside of Honey Latte Café in Unit 4.The space is ADA accessible and the event is free and open to all.

Join us in a placeless virtual space to celebrate Carolyn Supinka’s Metamorphic Door and the end of National Poetry Month. Carolyn will read selected poems from the collection and be joined by poets Sheila Dong and Clare Welsh. This is for all of Carolyn’s fans not local to Portland!

Zoom Info:

https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83156903670?pwd=CuhjTuGQtm8kTaTTeqWqHetnIrP2DT.1

Meeting ID: 831 5690 3670

Passcode: 040989

Find your local number: https://us05web.zoom.us/u/lRr81ACO

Gather under the pink moon at Mount Tabor park (an extinct cinder cone volcano) to hear geologically-themed poems from Carolyn Supinka’s debut collection, Metamorphic Door. Carolyn will be joined by fellow poet Ryan Mills and local musician, Olivia Awbrey accompanying Carolyn and playing their own short set of original songs. Free & all ages. We are meeting fairly close to car-access; on the west side of the park, under the Laurel tree at signpost #10, just past the first turret. Parking is limited and carpooling greatly encouraged! Performances will start shortly after 6pm(ish). Unless things become torrential, we plan to go ahead with the event rain or shine so wear your rain gear and bring an umbrella. (we will announce on Instagram if the event does need to be rescheduled due to weather) See you there!

Join us at local Buckman neighborhood spot, Up Up Books for a two-part event to celebrate the launch of Metamorphic Door by Carolyn Supinka. Part one is an interactive workshop led by Conjunction Press editors Carolyn Supinka and Karah Kemmerly. Using prompts, collage, found text and poetry, participants will be guided through the process of putting together a zine in collaboration with other artists. Everyone will receive a copy of the zine created during the workshop, which will take place in the workshop back room of the bookshop space from 5:30-6:30pm. Spots are still open for the workshop (RSVP is preferred to help us know the proper amount of supplies to bring. E-mail emmi@buckmanpublishing.com to claim your spot!)

This will be followed by a reading by local poets Karah Kemmerly, Darla Mottram, Harper Quinn, and of course, Carolyn Supinka. Books will be for sale with the author standing by to autograph your copy. Free and open to all with light refreshments served. Hope to see you there!

Up Up Books is ADA-accessible.

Buckman Publishing Presents: Carolyn Supinka’s Metamorphic Door. Come celebrate the release of Carolyn’s debut collection and National Poetry Month with readings by local poets Karolinn Fiscaletti, Karah Kemmerly, Erin Perry & Carolyn Supinka. Carolyn’s reading will include projections of the comic portions of the book. This event is happening a few days before the official release date of Metamorphic Door so come and snag your copy of the book early and get it signed by the author! All-ages, free & ADA-accessible. Doors at 7:00pm. Show runs 7:15-8:00pm. Cocktail reception & celebration featuring a custom drink menu inspired by poems in the collection to follow. All are welcome, see you soon!

Buckman Publishing is located inside of Honey Latte Café in Unit 4.The space is ADA accessible.