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Established in 1981, Calapooya dedicated itself to publishing a wide variety of poets from around the Northwest and US, as well as publishing translations. The magazine moved from Monmouth, Oregon to Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon in 1998, where five subsequent issues appeared. After publishing a special issue dedicated to the work the photographer Minor White did in La Grande during the 1940s, the magazine’s name changed to Basalt in 2004.
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Twentieth Century Memory
We’re happy to announce a new series of short memoirs about 20th century writers, artists, composers, musicians, letterpress printers, and publishers from the West Coast. The history of the West…
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Archive
Below are links to all of our previous articles, pages and posts.
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Volume 7, Number 1 2012
This issue features the haunting art of Oregon painter and iconoclast Morris Graves along with an insightful essay by Ben Mitchell to illuminate Graves’ aesthetic, offering both appreciation and rediscovery…
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Volume 6, Number 1
Reminiscent of Chinese “scholars’ rocks,” check out the stunning photography portfolio of the inland Northwest by Terry Toedtemeier, who called his lifelong admiration of the craggy and textured geology of…
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Volume 5, Issue 1: SPECIAL ISSUE: Kat Galloway Retrospective
SPECIAL ISSUE: KAT GALLOWAY RETROSPECTIVE This issue features an affectionate memoir about Kat’s student days by her university art teacher, Cheryl K. Shurtleff, a critical essay by the Art Editor…
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Basalt Volume 4, Number 1
Volume 4, Number 1 features poems and prose by Christopher Howell, Rich Ives, Laurie Lamon, Laurie Blauner, Madeline DeFrees, and James Crews. Art work by Mary Farrell.
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Places of Making: An Interview with Jennifer Boyden
Posted on January 16, 2013 | No Commentsby James Crews Jennifer Boyden is the author of The Mouths of Grazing Things, selected by Robert Pinsky as winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 2010. Her second... -
In the Dark
Posted on November 23, 2012 | No Commentsby Christopher Buckley In Memoriam: Larry Levis Waking in the dark, Daylight Savings gone, I’m remembering the Biltmore hotel in L.A., killing the afternoon at the MLA in 1981, the... -
Review of THE DIRT RIDDLES by Michael Walsh
Posted on October 22, 2012 | No CommentsUniversity of Arkansas Press, 2010 $16.00 reviewed by James Crews In the glut of poetry books being published these days, it’s easy for collections like Michael Walsh’s The Dirt Riddles...