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12/17/2025

1 copy left at Broadway Books!

12/14/2025

this new green leaf
translucent with autumn

this soft autumn rain
softer than spring

– two couplets

12/12/2025

I flew home and said it all again:
went door
to door, street
to street, to all the squares of the city
fingernails snagging in sleeves, anything
to get their attention and make them listen

The Trojans said
You have an expatriate mind
said
Shouldn’t you be discussing this somewhere else
said
Look: nothing but thin blue air.

– from “The Agenda”

12/01/2025

Great news at Powell's ! - 20% off Sitewide!

10/08/2025

Literary Arts Bookstore, Oct 7th, 2025

L to R: Jeff VanderMeer, Omar El Akkad, and Crystal Willer (archivist for the Katherine Dunn bequest, Lewis & Clark College, Aubrey R. Watzek Library) in conversation on the work of Katherine Dunn.

This event celebrated the posthumous release of Dunn's short story collection, "Near Flesh".

We are humbly grateful and pleased and proud to be able to say that Katherine Dunn was a Gobsh*te Quarterly contributor ( #13/14, "What It Means..." Available through Literary Arts Bookstore).

09/20/2025

Many thanks to Mother Foucault's Bookshop, the readers, and the appreciative audience! A lovely late summer bloom.

09/19/2025

Tonight at 7!
At Mother Foucault's -

Gobsh*te Quarterly presents
poetry you'll find nowhere else!

Portland poet and Holbrook Award winner Douglas Spangle will read from Holderlin’s “Bread and Wine”

poems by WW2 German poet Peter Huchel

and poems by contemporary Swiss poet, Florian Vetsch.

Portland poet Michael Shay will read from Austrian Late Romantic poet Georg Trakl.

09/16/2025

Come & join us! This coming Friday night - Sept. 19th
At Mother Foucault's Bookshop:

Gobsh*te Quarterly presents Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Trakl, Peter Huchel, and Florian Vetch -

poetry you will find nowhere else.

09/13/2025

Sept 19th, 7 p.m., Mother Foucault's Bookshop!

Poetry translated from German: Holderlin, Trakl, Huchel, & Vetsch -

Peter Huchel walked home to Berlin from the Siege of Stalingrad. He lived in East Germany.

WASH DAY
The buckets drain
onto concrete, I pour
out the lye,
the murky water
of wasted time.
I stretch the line
from tree to tree.

A black Russian sedan with white drapes
rolls prowling down the street
and stops at my door.

A bristle,
not wafted in
by summer,
sticks itself fast
in my throat.

09/05/2025

The Poetry Festival at Mother Foucault's Bookshop, Sept 4th.

Cast in order of appearance:

David Carmack Lewis; Clara-Julia Peru; Michael Shay; Douglas Spangle; Kristen Diederich.

Not shown: Rv Branham; Moira McAuliffe; Julia Laxer.

09/04/2025

Tonight at 7 p.m.
At Mother Foucault's Bookshop - GobQ reads!

Festival begins at 5 p.m.

09/01/2025

Mother Foucault's Bookshop Poetry Festival -
Sept. 4th-7th, 4-8 p.m.!

The Gobsh*te Quarterly reading is taking shape!
Readers: Rv Branham (founder, editor)
Moira McAuliffe (co-ditto, co-ditto)

7 p.m., the 4th.

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Portland, OR

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