Nicholas Yandell is a composer, who sometimes creates with words instead of sound. In those cases, he usually ends up with fiction and occasionally poetry. He also paints and draws, and often all these activities become combined, because they’re really not all that different from each other, and it’s all just art right?
When not working on creative projects, Nick works as a bookseller at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon, where he enjoys being surrounded by a wealth of knowledge, as well as working and interacting with creatively stimulating people. He has a website where he displays his creations; it’s nicholasyandell.com. Check it out!
Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
Kai Broach writes fiction and poetry. Their work has appeared in Jeopardy and Scribendi magazines, and they are the winner of the 2022 Western Regional Honors Council Award for Short Fiction. They grew up around Washington’s Puget Sound and currently live in Portland, Oregon, where they offer literary and bathroom advice to the customers of Powell’s Books.
Emily J. Schnipper (she/her) sells nature books to the people of Portland when she is not reading, writing, or acting as hype person for the California Condor. A graduate of the Independent Publishing Resource Center’s Portfolio Program in Poetry, she is currently working on a MFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Emily is the creator of the zine Adventures in Unemployment and has been published in Ghost Print, Minto Press, and Papeachu Review. Her chapbook, Bother, focuses on themes of relationship, chronic illness, and the environment.
Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader's Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.
The theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
Buy Coleman Stevenson's Light Sleeper here and use code lightsleeper for 20% off your copy. Join the DO Editors as we discuss Light Sleeper for the DO Book Club. Today, we discuss "The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #3605" on page 12 of Light Sleeper.
Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide , and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online.
Theme music is "Woods" by Hawkin.
Buy Coleman Stevenson's Light Sleeper here and use code lightsleeper for 20% off your copy. Join the DO Editors as we discuss Light Sleeper for the DO Book Club. Today we discuss "The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609" on page 12 of Light Sleeper.
Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online.
Theme music is "Woods" by Hawkin.
Buy Coleman Stevenson's Light Sleeper here and use code lightsleeper for 20% off your copy. Join the DO Editors as we discuss Light Sleeper for the DO Book Club. Today we discuss "Loved Them Like Snow" on page 41 and "The White Phase" on page 34 of Light Sleeper.
Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online.
Theme music is "Woods" by Hawkin.
Buy Coleman Stevenson's Light Sleeper here and use code lightsleeper for 20% off your copy. Join the DO Editors as we discuss Light Sleeper for the DO Book Club. Today we discuss "How do you know what to keep?" on page 12 and "I understand a little of my architecture" on page 16 of Light Sleeper.
Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online.
Theme music is "Woods" by Hawkin.
Buy Coleman Stevenson's Light Sleeper here and use code lightsleeper for 20% off your copy. Join the DO Editors as we discuss Light Sleeper for the DO Book Club. Today we discuss "Ask Me" on page 44 of Light Sleeper.
Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online.
Theme music is "Woods" by Hawkin.
Buy Coleman Stevenson's Light Sleeper here and use code lightsleeper for 20% off your copy. Join the DO Editors as we discuss Light Sleeper for the DO Book Club. Today we discuss "The Taxidermist" on page 30 of Light Sleeper.
Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online.
Theme music is "Woods" by Hawkin.
Buy Coleman Stevenson's Light Sleeper here and use code lightsleeper for 20% off your copy. Join the DO Editors as we discuss Light Sleeper for the DO Book Club. Today we discuss "Nothing at All or Everything at Once" on page 67 of Light Sleeper.
Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online.
Theme music is "Woods" by Hawkin.
Buy Coleman Stevenson's Light Sleeper here and use code lightsleeper for 20% off your copy. Join the DO Editors as we discuss Light Sleeper for the DO Book Club. Today we discuss "Year of Dead Dogs" on page 46 of Light Sleeper.
Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online.
Theme music is "Woods" by Hawkin.
Buy Coleman Stevenson's Light Sleeper here and use code lightsleeper for 20% off your copy. Join the DO Editors as we discuss Light Sleeper for the DO Book Club. Today we discuss "Year of Dead Dogs" on page 46 of Light Sleeper.
Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online.
Theme music is "Woods" by Hawkin.
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader's Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.
Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
Ranjith Sivaraman is an upcoming Poet from Kerala, a beautiful state in India. His poems merge nature imagery, human emotions, and human psychology into a gorgeous tapestry. Sivaraman’s English Poems are published in International Literature Magazines and Journals from various locations like Alberta, Budapest, Essex, London, New York, Indiana, Lisbon, Colorado, California, New Jersey, Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc, Kerala, Texas, Chennai & Toronto. His poem ‘Shortest Distance’ was released as Music Video in 2022. insta Handle: @lovelifetip
Francesca Sidoti worked at the campus bookstore as well at a stationery store specializing in writing supplies. Her work has been published in Chiron Review, Haight-Ashbury LIterary Journal, South Ash Press, Viet Nam Generation, Connections and other literary magazines; however, this is her first submission in 25 years. As a featured reader, she has appeared in bookstores and other venues throughout the US and Canada. She is grateful over the years to have received several awards, most recently the Dorn Space 2021 Poet of the Year.
Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
Pat Dutt’s short stories and flash fictions have been published in The Louisville Review, Emrys Journal, Caustic Frolic, America Writers Review, and other literary magazines. She is the author of the non-fiction book, The Good Moms, Their Children, and Friendship. Her home is in central New York where she taught high school science and worked for many years as a landscape estimator. She also volunteers for a mental health organization and writes a blog (mentalchill.org) along with her son, Ben.
Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
Timothy Arliss OBrien (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist in music composition, writing, and visual art. He has premiered a range of music from opera to film scores to electronic ambient projects. He has published several books of poetry, (The Queer Revolt, Dear God I’m a Faggot, & Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month), and has written for Look Up Records (Seattle), and Deep Overstock: The Bookseller’s Journal. He also founded the podcast & small press publishing house, The Poet Heroic, and founded the digital magic space The Healers Coven. He also showcases his psychedelic makeup skills as the phenomenal drag queen Tabitha Acidz.
Nicholas Yandell is a composer, who sometimes creates with words instead of sound. In those cases, he usually ends up with fiction and occasionally poetry. He also paints and draws, and often all these activities become combined, because they’re really not all that different from each other, and it’s all just art right? When not working on creative projects, Nick works as a bookseller at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon, where he enjoys being surrounded by a wealth of knowledge, as well as working and interacting with creatively stimulating people.
Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
David de Young recently completed an MFA with NYU’s low residency creative writing program in Paris. He’s the proprietor of a small independent publisher, Nordic Moon Press. He lives in Finland with his wife and three children.
At 17, Junix Seraphim started their first over-the-table work as a bookseller at Barnes & Noble in the mall. When that wasn't enough to pay their rent, bills, and put themselves through community college, they moved to Powell's where they also worked as a bookseller. Today, Junix is a poet, drag king, and grassroots organizer fighting for the rights and livelihoods of Filipinos in the homeland and in the belly of the beast, the U.S. Their love of goth culture and black lipstick is reflected in his drag performances, which range from campy character drag to macabre explorations of his personal relationship with death, and the relationships with death held by their communities. Junix and their friends are actively shaping the transsexual future.
Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
Valerie Anne Burns is the author of Caution: Mermaid Crossing, Voyages of a Motherless Daughter. She previously worked in Hollywood as a story editor and in production, as well as, having her own business as a makeover specialist for home décor and wardrobe. Santa Barbara is home and the place where Valerie Anne has survived breast cancer. Being near the ocean brings out her “inner mermaid” and gives her the peace and clarity she needs to write, along with the strength and grace she needs to mother herself through the stormiest weather.
Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
Sam Baldassari Jones's work has appeared in Eunoia Review, 100-Word Story, Flash Fiction Magazine, and NYCMidnight, where my micro-fiction story was selected third among seven thousand writers. She received my MFA from Brooklyn College in 2018.
RJ Equality Ingram is a poet from Vermilion, Ohio who lives in Portland, Oregon & works as a bookseller for Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette. RJ Received his MFA in creative writing with concentrations in poetry & creative nonfiction from Saint Mary's College of California. RJ's cat Brenda lost a leg in an RSVP to the prince's ball. Follow @RJEquality
Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
Armed with an MFA from Boston University Cynthia plowed her way through several productive careers in the arts including instructor in drawing and painting, Dean of Admissions at The Art Institute of Boston, founder of ARTWORKS Consulting, and president of Documentary Educational Resources - a nonprofit film distribution company. She now claims to be a writer.
Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.
