Songbook PDX returns to Salon Rouge on April 6. Contact Adam Strong on IG for address.

Local, cool indie Up Up Books is now selling copies of Planet Grim (7.13 Books) along with the limited release chapbook “Cold Plum Wine” by Picture Frame Press (100 copies — that’s it!). I wrote one of the stories and John McManus, the other.

I found a poem online, like a phantom, in the quiet rooms of Ghost City Press. I didn’t know they’d published it. It’s “Month Three.” As a ritual, for the first three months until the anniversary of my fiancé’s death, I wrote a poem. This is the first one. So this was published in Sept 2023, the third year after I took him to the hospital, where we stayed and stayed and stayed. We went the day the skies were orange.

LIVE: Gresham — I play bass:

“Gresham is Matt and Alex from the Double U, one of the most unusual and otherworldly bands to spring from the 90s SF scene (along with the likes of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Caroliner Rainbow, etc).” T3

Falling Lanterns by the Double U — now available on Bandcamp. Originally released on Emperor Jones in 2000, RIP, Craig Stewart.