Unchartable Release + Reading

Join Portland Review as we launch the 2019 issue, Unchartable: On Environmental Unknowns. The first themed anthology in our 63-year publishing history, we’ve called on an international set of writers and artists to contemplate, create, and “grapple with the environment in the widest sense of the word.”

This event will feature readings by 2019 contributors Tracy Daugherty, Amalia Gladhart, Brooke Matson, and Vuslat D. Katsanis; Vuslat D. Katsanis will be reading a translation of Öznur Kutkan’s work. The event will also include an author discussion of the Unchartable theme, moderated by Portland Review‘s Jennifer Cie.

The issue can be purchased at the time of the event or through online pre-order:
http://portlandreview.org/unchartable-on-environmental-unknowns/

Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, six short story collections, two books of essays, and three literary biographies. His forthcoming books are Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society and Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens.

Amalia Gladhart’s short fiction has appeared in Saranac Review, The Fantasist, Stonecrop, Cordella Magazine, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. Detours, a sequence of prose poems, was published by Burnside Review Press. Recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship, she is the translator of Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer, and of two novels by Alicia Yánez Cossío, The Potbellied Virgin and Beyond the Islands. She is Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.

Vuslat D. Katsanis is a writer, scholar, and practicing artist working at the intersection of multiple expressive traditions. She is currently Assistant Professor of Writing and Literature at The Evergreen State College, where she teaches interdisciplinary courses in literary arts. Her writing has appeared in Interstitial: A Journal of Modern Culture and Events, New Cinemas Journal of Contemporary Film, K1N: Journal of Literary Translation, and Necessary Fiction.

Öznur Kutkan is a Turkish writer, born in Ankara in 1953, and a graduate of Ankara Industrial Arts, School of Higher Education. After teaching industrial arts for nearly a dozen years in Elazig, Konya, Turhal and Izmir, she relocated to the U.S.A. with her two daughters. She is currently retired in Izmir, Turkey, where she continues to write. Her most recent work, The Night, is available on Bosphorus Review of Books.

Brooke Matson is a poet, educator, and the 2016 recipient of the Artist Trust GAP award and Centrum residency. Her first book of poetry, The Moons, was published by Blue Begonia Press in 2012. Her poems have most recently appeared in Potomac Review, Prairie Schooner, and Poetry Northwest.

Jennifer Cie is an editorial assistant for Portland Review and first-year MFA candidate in Portland State University’s fiction program. Her writing has appeared in Philadelphia Printworks, OnMogul, and This I Believe.
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