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Backlist to the Future: Brew to Bikes

By Margo Pecha

February 28, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

As I am new to the city of Portland, Brew to Bikes: Portland’s Artisan Economy immediately caught my attention. What better book to pick up for a crash course in all the unique things the city has to offer? However, I soon discovered that the book is a bit more than a guidebook for tourists […]

Filed Under: Backlist to the Future Tagged With: Art, artisan economy, Brew to Bikes, Charles Heying, communities, Economics, ooligan press, Portland

Modern Surrealism at Literary Arts

By Geoff Wallace

November 27, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Following on the heels of Poetry Press Week, a new-format reading series that takes its cues from Portland’s Fashion Week, Literary Arts continued its hot streak with yet another outstanding poetry reading. On Sunday, November 10th, poets Joshua Beckman, John Beer, and Zachary Schomburg read at Literary Arts in downtown Portland, and their knockout performances […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Agnes the Elephant, communities, Fashion Week, God's Wicker Basket Furnace, Image of Solace Attempted in Your Name, John Beer, Joshua Beckman, Literary Arts, poetry, Poetry Press Week, Portland, Reading, The Waste Land, Wave Books, writing, Zachary Schomburg

Know Your City Kiosk Kickstarter Campaign

By Lauren Hudgins

November 18, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Know Your City Kiosk Kickstarter Campaign

Know Your City, the organization formerly known as The Dill Pickle Club, is planning to construct a bike-powered mobile bookstore and information kiosk for Old Town Portland. It will be located in the pedestrian area of SW Ankeny Alley, right next to Voodoo Doughnuts: the perfect place to target tourists and sell tickets to KYC […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: A Night In The Alley, Comics for Change, communities, Dill Pickle Club, Facebook, Kickstarter, Know Your City, Old Town Portland, Ooligan at large, Oregon History Comics, Portland, Voodoo Doughnuts

Poetry’s Alive in Portland

By Ryan Kauffman

November 14, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Poetry’s Alive in Portland

This past Sunday, November 10th, local poets John Beer and Zachary Schomburg came together for a reading and conversation at the Literary Arts event space here in downtown Portland. They brought Joshua Beckman along for the ride, another accomplished poet who splits his time between Seattle and New York. The event was well-attended with the […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Black Ocean Press, communities, Fjords Vol. 1, John Beer, Joshua Beckman, Literary Arts, New York, Octopus Books, poetry, Portland, portland state university, PSU, Scary No Scary, Seattle, The Inside of an Apple, The Man Suit, Wave Books, writing, Zachary Schomburg

Lilija Valis Guest Poet Post

By Lilija Valis, guest author

May 16, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Lilija Valis Guest Poet Post

Every Thursday, Ooligan Press invites a poet whose work is included in Alive at the Center, our anthology of poetry from Pacific Northwest writers, to blog for us. This week, we are pleased to feature Lilija Valis, a poet from Vancouver, B.C. Please enjoy her post! POETRY FAMILY We are strangers among strangers. Even within our blood […]

Filed Under: Guest Blogger Tagged With: 19th century, Afghanistan, Alive at the Center, Anna Akhmatova, Boston, British Columbia, Chinese poets, Cold Mountain, communities, Dead Poets society, Emily Dickinson, freedom, Freedom On the Fault Line, Hafiz, Han Shan, Han Shan Poetry Project, Heritage Grill, Hogan's Alley Open Readings, India, Lao Tzu, Latin America, Lilija Valis, Lithuania, love, Mother Nature, New England, New Westminister, New York, ooligan press, Opid Mandelstam, Pablo Neruda, Persia, Poet Laureate, Poetic Justice, poetry, Poetry Around the World, Poets Potluck, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Rumi, Russia, San Francisco, Tao Te Ching, The Condemned Man Ate A Hearty Meal, torture, Twisted Poets Literary Salon, Vancouver, World Poetry, Writers International Network, writing

Self-Publishing Together

By Ooligan Press

April 10, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Drew Lazzara The thing that surprises me most about the evolution of the publishing industry is a gut feeling I have that lots of people really don’t like the publishing industry. That surprises me because, at its absolute worst, publishing seems so benign. Most of the time, publishers just make books, and for that […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: books, communities, Covers, Design, Editing, fiction, future, judgment, publishing, Reading, Self-Publishing, Simon & Schuster, Swiss, writing

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