Join us Friday at 7pm for the launch of Matthew Dickman’s new chapbook, Love Spell/Love Hex. He will be joined by writers Alex Behr and Joseph Mains

Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky's Revolver, Brother, 50 American Plays, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize and a Kate Tufts Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The London Review of Books, and Poetry London, among other places.

Alex Behr is the author of Planet Grim: Stories (7.13 Books). Her second short fiction collection is forthcoming in 2026. Behr received a Regional Arts and Culture Council Arts3C grant to produce the short film Grief Stick, directed and edited by Brian Padian. Through poetry, videos, and music, it explores the sudden death of Alex’s fiancé. It’s accompanied by a chapbook of the same name (Picture Frame Press). She is the co-author of Cold Plum Wine (Picture Frame Press). Her writing has appeared widely, including in Tin House, Salon, Oregon Humanities, Gravity of the Thing, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Portland Review, Lumina, Propeller, Oregon ArtsWatch, and Painted Bride Quarterly

Joseph Mains is a writer and poet who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He has had work published in The Collapsar, H_NGM_N, and Spork Press among others.