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Writer. Person. Woman. Mother. Partner. Friend.
https://linktr.ee/loriyeg
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OPB
12 days ago
KUOW heard from more than a dozen families that said climate change was a driving factor in their decision to relocate to the Pacific Northwest.
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Is the Pacific Northwest ready for a wave of climate migration?
Climate migration is difficult to study, and even harder to predict, because a complex constellation of factors guides the decision to pick up and move. But some experts, like Abrahm Lustgarten, say a historic population shift has already begun, and Western Washington should start preparing now to become a “climate haven.”
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/14/is-the-pacific-northwest-ready-for-wave-of-climate-migration/
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I realized today that I've spent about 8 years working on one 4,000-word essay. Every rejection, every rewrite has brought it closer to what it wants to be. Keep going.
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Street Roots
about 1 month ago
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
https://www.streetroots.org/news/2025/11/18/oregon-experiments-direct-cash-payments-assist-homeless-youths
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I think about this all the time and find it hilariously accurate. Thanks
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Hand on my stupid heart
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158592...
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Meditations in an Emergency
I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/1585925/meditations-in-an-emergency
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Kenyon Review
about 1 month ago
We are accepting applications for our four-month long Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers. The Fellowship involves one-on-one mentorship by an experienced editor on the KR team. Find application guidelines and previous fellows at the link:
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Brecht De Poortere
about 2 months ago
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
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Literary Arts Fund
about 2 months ago
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
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Poets & Writers
2 months ago
Literary Arts executive director Andrew Proctor overcame challenges to steer the organization through a successful capital campaign, raising over $22 million at a time when the arts need it most. “We need literature to have a seat at the table in our civic lives.” More:
at.pw.org/LitArtsInPortland
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The Oregonian
2 months ago
Downtown Portland has some new art at 5th and Washington🐸 👀 Click the link to read more about Portland's Protest Frog:
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑
2 months ago
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.
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Raider
3 months ago
This Is Fascism
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The Daily Show
3 months ago
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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#WarRavagedPortland
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Ron Filipkowski
3 months ago
Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.
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The Oregonian
3 months ago
“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”
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Prisonculture
3 months ago
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Gabino Iglesias
3 months ago
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
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Thank you
@expositionreview.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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Thank you
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Exposition Review
3 months ago
Celebrate
@loriyeg.bsky.social
& read her piece THE EMPEROR’S DENTIST in Atlas and Alice:
atlasandalice.com/2024/04/18/n...
. Then read HOW TO SURVIVE A GENOCIDE in
#ExpoReveiw
:
tinyurl.com/ExpoHow
& listen to her
#Transposition
podcast BEFORE IT’S LOST: EXCAVATING HISTORY:
tinyurl.com/ExpoTranspo
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Nonfiction from Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
Original Photo: Umanoide The Emperor’s Dentist Something propelled this great-grandfather of mine to leave. With dental instruments strapped to his back, the sandstone spires of Cairo dusted, he he…
https://atlasandalice.com/2024/04/18/nonfiction-from-lori-yeghiayan-friedman
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Returning to the library this week so others can enjoy the splendor that is
@writesloud.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Claudia Wair
3 months ago
My dystopian flash appears in Writers Resist today. It was written after the election around the question plaguing me: What will it mean to be Black in Tr*ump's America? I hope you'll check it out.
www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...
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SmokeLong Quarterly
3 months ago
"I still very much and thoroughly consider myself a fiction writer. But sometimes something of life presents itself directly for writing, and that was this." Our first featured author of Issue 89 is Aimee Bender
@aimee-bender.bsky.social
. Read her interview here:
www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
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Smoke Signals with Aimee Bender - SmokeLong Quarterly
You have three threads woven together here—the story of your father, of the taxed sump pump, and of Joni Mitchell making music—and it’s all seamless and brilliant. Are you on the lookout for events li...
https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoke-signals-with-aimee-bender/
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Karen Attiah
3 months ago
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
https://substack.com/@karenattiah/note/p-173531760?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2bz6j
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3 months ago
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E. Jean Carroll is a hero.
4 months ago
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The Oregonian
4 months ago
In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, thousands of Portlanders were forced out of the neighborhood due to development projects.
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Newly opened Albina development aims to create a path for some former neighborhood residents to return
In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, thousands of Portlanders were forced out of the neighborhood due to development projects.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/09/newly-opened-albina-development-aims-to-create-a-path-for-some-former-neighborhood-residents-to-return.html
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I kust stumbled on this finalist list and saw that my creative nonfiction piece “The Emperor’s Dentist” is on it. Thanks Sundress Press and Atlas and Alice
bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-...
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2025 Finalists – Best of the Net
https://bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-finalists/
4 months ago
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I guess Portland is cool again, according to the NY Times:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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36 Hours in Portland, Oregon: Things to Do and See
There’s depth beyond Portland’s quirkiness, including one of the country’s finest dining scenes.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/08/28/travel/things-to-do-portland-oregon.html
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NPR
4 months ago
As famine plagues Gaza, NPR exclusive reporting looks at the U.S. role in the humanitarian crisis. Many former officials NPR interviewed share a common refrain: Did we do enough to prevent this?
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'We didn't do enough': How U.S. policy failed Palestinians in Gaza
As famine plagues Gaza, NPR exclusive reporting looks at the U.S. role in the humanitarian crisis. Many former officials NPR interviewed share a common refrain: Did we do enough to prevent this?
https://n.pr/4fWhxoi
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Column | Before Gaza’s woe, there was Nagorno-Karabakh
Nagorno-Karabakh’s population of ethnic Armenians was expelled in 2023, and the world did nothing to stop it. Gaza may be on track for the same fate.
https://wapo.st/3Jp11AW
5 months ago
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That's right, I got my library to order
@writesloud.bsky.social
's forthcoming book from
@stanchion.bsky.social
"First Kicking, Then Not." That's how I spread the brilliance:
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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First Kicking, Then Not | Stanchion
A young woman transforms after an unspeakable loss. A recent divorcee discovers a new life. An aging mother fears losing everything she loves, while another abandons her children at Starbucks. First K...
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/first-kicking-then-not
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The Guardian
5 months ago
The polls look bad for Trump – but tyrants don’t depend on approval ratings | Judith Levine
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The polls look bad for Trump – but tyrants don’t depend on approval ratings | Judith Levine
Claims that Maga is fracturing are overblown. But that doesn’t mean Trump can’t be defeated
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/25/polls-approval-ratings-trump-maga?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1753446871
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"Believing you can outfox a fox is how you become its prey. And American elites, confident in their cleverness, have welcomed a fox into the henhouse."
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/hungary-viktor-orban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.z61V.KnBmQO994sFJ&smid=bs-share
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Saeed Jones
5 months ago
“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”
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300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence.
For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...
https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/business-culture/300000-black-women-left-labor-force-3-months-s-not-coincidence-rcna219355
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OPB
5 months ago
Now, state lawmakers have passed a bill which allocates $3.4 million to support criminal defense clinics. They had previously approved $2.1 million in one-time funding in 2024.
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Oregon law schools to receive funding for criminal defense clinics
There are currently defense clinics at Willamette University in Salem, Lewis & Clark College in Portland, and the University of Oregon in both Portland and Eugene.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/07/19/oregon-law-schools-funding-clinics/
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Phil Lewis
6 months ago
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.
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ANMLY
6 months ago
Tomorrow is the deadline!
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OPB
6 months ago
The public market is now more than halfway to its $25 million funding goal and 2026 opening.
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James Beard Public Market gets $10M from Oregon Legislature
This week, the Oregon Legislature allocated $10 million in lottery bonds for the forthcoming James Beard Public Market in downtown Portland. It's a major step for the food hall that has been decades in the making.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/28/james-beard-public-market-oregon-legislature-10-million-lottery-bonds/
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Maureen Langloss
6 months ago
Heartbreaking & so powerful. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
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Opinion | My Daughter Was at the Center of the Supreme Court Case on Trans Care. Our Hearts Are Broken.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/opinion/supreme-court-trans-care.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE8.J8cu.onDnmMzTiAAF&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Andrew Keen
7 months ago
forgot to add
@thebookmaven.bsky.social
to this fun interview about her five non fiction picks for the summer
keenon.substack.com/p/we-get-the...
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We Get the Non-Fiction We Deserve: From AI Empires to Wokeness Critiques to a Year Without Sex
Episode 2557: Bethanne Patrick's latest non-fiction round-up
https://keenon.substack.com/p/we-get-the-non-fiction-we-deserve
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International Armenian Literary Alliance
7 months ago
Congrats to
@arammrjoian.bsky.social
& Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian on the release of Waterline & Forest Euphoria! 🎉📚 Both are featured in our 2025 Literary Lights series—don’t miss these powerful reads on family, grief, queerness, and nature. 📖 Get your copies:
bookshop.org/shop/IALA
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Gabino Iglesias
7 months ago
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
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Mikkel Krause Frantzen
7 months ago
well sometimes you just read a much-hyped essay and it doesn’t disappoint, at all at all:
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/ess...
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Pirates of the Ayahuasca | Sarah Miller
I saw the outline of the Americas from space. North America was belching out strands of fat pearls, diamonds, gold and silver coins, swimming pools, cars, high-end watches, like the whole landmass was...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/essays/pirates-of-the-ayahuasca/
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Axios speaking some truth:
www.axios.com/2025/05/23/g...
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"Like a pendulum": How America's racial reckoning unraveled
The America that marched for George Floyd five years ago is gone.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/george-floyd-anniversary-trump-racial-justice
7 months ago
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I have a flash creative nonfiction piece in this issue of Gordon Square Review. Thanks
@literarycleveland.bsky.social
. It's about how the lingering impacts of displacement & genocide - and a memorable visit to the college counseling office.
www.gordonsquarereview.org/friedman-631...
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Flea in a Cage
Creative Non-Fiction by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
http://www.gordonsquarereview.org/friedman-631067.html
7 months ago
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to be humane in inhumane times is our highest imperative
8 months ago
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I knew all the rejections would come rolling in at the end of April and beginning of May, proving once again that to know something ahead of time does not make it any easier to process. Hoping for one bit of good news amid the avalanche. I think I'm a bit addicted to this cycle - the writing life.
8 months ago
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I want to recommend The Burning Heart of the World by
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. The subject is serious, but I found it a pleasurable read - maybe the attention to language, the deceptively "simple" storytelling style - which says a lot with little, contains many layers.
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