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Backlist gets front seat for summer reading

By Pam Wells @wellsworld

July 26, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Backlist gets front seat for summer reading

Here’s a quick reading guide—and thank heavens it’s a non-election year—for #summerreading in 2017.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: back to school, backlist, books, fiction, July 4th, Labor Day, LGBTQ, Marketing, Memorial Day, nonfiction, Oregon history, poetry, pride, school, Short Stories, summer reading, travel, young adult

American Scream: Palindrome Apocalypse: A Trip and a Treat for Your Mind

By Gloria Mulvihill

September 28, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

<em>American Scream: Palindrome Apocalypse:</em> A Trip and a Treat for Your Mind

It’s rare for me to come across a fellow poetry lover these days who isn’t some flavor of English. Poetry gets a bad rap for being esoteric, obtuse, unnecessarily complicated or convoluted, or pretentious. I’m not here to say that poetry like that doesn’t exist (just as there is prose that carries these not so […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: #lovebooks, books, Bookworm, croatia, lovepoetry, lovereading, ooliganpress, poetry, poetrycollection, portlandstate, read, readmorepoetry

What You Reading For?

By Brendan Brown

August 10, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

What You Reading For?

Forgive the assumption, but it seems like a pretty safe bet that you, dear Ooligan-blog reader, are the sort of person who spends a not-insignificant amount of time exploring physical and digital bookshelves in search of the next book to add to your “To Read” stack. If you’re anything like me, your approach to this […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: books, Difficulty, genre, literary fiction, Pleasure, poetry, Reading, Taste, Value

Finding a Niche for Poetry

By Kristin Choruby

April 15, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Finding a Niche for Poetry

In the world of publishing, poetry is one of those areas where bigger is not better. Poems rarely excite the interest of the general readership, and as such, the major publishing houses will usually decide that any given book in the genre is simply not worth their time, effort, or money. After all, when was […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Alive at the Center, Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, Indie Publishers, Niche Publishers, Nonprofit Publishers, ooligan press, poetry, publishing, Small Presses

Trippingly of the Tongue: an (In)complete Look at Ongoing Reading Series in Portland

By Brian Tibbetts

March 25, 2015 by OoliganPress 1 Comment

Trippingly of the Tongue: an (In)complete Look at Ongoing Reading Series in Portland

Portland is a city known for being well read, highly literate, and highly supportive of the literary arts in general. This reputation seems well deserved. Portland is home to the world’s largest bookstore, Powell’s City of Books,boasts one of the best-attended writer’s lecture series in the nation, Portland Arts and Lectures, and houses a great […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Author events, Bone Tax, Burnt Tongue, If Not for Kidnap, INFK, Literary Portland, poetry, Reading, Reading series, Salon Skid Row, The Reading at Tony's, Unchaste Readers

Backlist to the Future: American Scream: Palindrome Apocalypse

By Margaret Schimming

August 15, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Backlist to the Future: American Scream: Palindrome Apocalypse

Everyone dreams of something. Winning the lottery. Starting their own business. Publishing a book. From little children to adults, dreams fly through our heads, but what doesn’t are the potential detours we take when on our way to realizing these dreams. Where we end up is not necessarily the place that we intended to be, […]

Filed Under: Backlist to the Future Tagged With: American Scream, croatia, croatian, dreams, Dubravka Oraic Tolic, intentions, interpretation, Ooligan, poetry, translation

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