Field Notes
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Porter House Reads: Writing Rituals & Superstitions
On four notable occasions, I have finished writing for the day only to find the climaxes of my stories rearing their Hydra heads in my life. This has involved tornadoes, apartment-ruining fires, and other calamitous events. So, needless to say, there are some stories that I have vowed never to write.
Field Notes,
2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations
The editorial staff here at Porter House Review couldn’t be more excited to celebrate our nominees for the 2019 Pushcart Prize. While PHR celebrates publishing every piece of poetry, prose, and art that our wonderful contributors submitted over the past year, please join us in congratulating these exceptional artists and writers.
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Porter House Reads: Favorite Latinx Artists
Porter House Review editors recommend their favorite Latinx artists, including Fernando A. Flores, Richard Rodriguez, and Valeria Luiselli.
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Porter House Reads: Halloween Favorites
It’s spooky season, and we made a list of our favorite haunted tales to round out the month of October.
Arts & Culture, Field Notes,
On Writing Women, and Some Thoughts About Hyacinths
I often find myself reading female characters written by men and wondering if they have ever met a woman before. I find this even more disheartening when these men are my colleagues and I know they have met women before (because I am one of those women), but their female characters are flat or over-sexualized or they don’t speak the same language.
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Porter House Listens: Our Writing Playlist
Do you need to write with playlists thematically curated to your current work in progress, or do you consider even being aware of the existence of song lyrics while writing to be sacrilegious?
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Ambiguity and Anxiety: In Which a Queer Poet Reflects on Queer Poetry
Why is [otherness] so hard to portray joy without fear, without anxiety? How can we write about it without it becoming defiant, resistant, or political? There are times when I don’t think we can. Or, at least, I don’t think I can. But that’s more my own personal tragedy, really.
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Porter House Reads: Selections from Recent Literary Magazines
These are the pieces that guide our editorial sightlines—the writing that drives us to cultivate a unified publication seasoned with all the disparate flavors of writing we have sought out as readers ourselves. We hope you enjoy reading some of the language that has most recently nourished us.