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Welcome to the inaugural edition of BAC Monthly!
Keep scrolling to register for course offerings, read about upcoming events, and explore recent work from Belmont Art Collective.
Feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone who might be interested and join our mailing list to stay up to date!
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Offerings
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| | What is left but this:
the compulsion to tell.
—Mary Jo Bang
| Praise, lamentation, consolation, alienation—the elegy has as many facets as grief itself, as many tensions and anxieties. An elegy publicly declares what is privately felt. It constructs from destruction. But what new meanings arise when elegy is stretched across a series, a book, an extended period of time? How does a long form complicate grief, positioning mourning against melancholia, release against the refusal to accept, love against obsession?
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Join Karolinn Fiscaletti for an eight-week seminar exploring the long-form elegy. Key takeaways include:
| | • | A deeper understanding of writing about grief
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| | • | Exposure to historical and contemporary poetry and essays
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| | • | Access to course readings and materials, included with registration
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| | • | Community-building through guided small-group discussion and activities
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| | • | A seminar visit from a Portland-area poet
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| | • | A certificate of course completion
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| This course is open to anyone 18+ with an interest in poetry. Expertise is not required! Seating is limited. Click here to register today!
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Recent work
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Carolyn Supinka
Outer Voice and River Poems
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On May 24th I will perform my new poetry comic, Glacial Age, at Real Time, the final show of the 2025-2026 Outer Voice Artists Alliance showcase at Dekum Street Theater in Portland. This feels like the culmination of a series of fun readings and performances in April for Poetry Month, including a reading at Lewis & Clark College that celebrated the release of a new chapbook collecting William Stafford poems themed around rivers. I loved getting to share poetry comics on the projector with students in the audience, and as preparation for the reading, it was amazing to get to spend some time in the Special Collections & Archives looking at handwritten and typed Stafford manuscripts. Also in April, I read new work at the first event of the new Poetry Lab reading series hosted by Buckman Publishing, which was a fun and organic format: there were no introductions or bios read, and poets just shared work organically throughout the evening in the Buckman space.
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Karah Kemmerly
Ekphrasis: A PCC Faculty Exhibition
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This spring, faculty from all four Portland Community College campuses collaborated on an exhibition featuring artwork and ekphrastic poetry. Karah wrote a poem in response to a video artwork and participated in a reading at the exhibition closing party on Saturday, April 18.
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She's also currently teaching the publishing class at PCC Rock Creek, where she's helping students put together the campus literary magazine, The Bellwether Review. The journal will be published in mid-June.
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Alex Terlecky
Blog | Life on a Lupine
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“He wiggled his thorax, moved his antennae, fluttered his wings. He untucked his head and began to look around. He, too, had good eyesight, and although it was not nearly as sharp as the spider’s, it was clear enough for him to notice the arachnid lurking one leaf over. With the strength he’d accumulated, he began to wave his middle legs into the air—a signal to Salticus to back off. He was no easy prey any longer and was prepared to put up a fight. From there, it was only a matter of moments before Bombus found the energy to stand up, stretch out his legs and wings, and take flight, ascending to the blossoms adorning the top of the lupine...”
Read more
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Upcoming events
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| | | | | | | TBA: Fall Workshop
| Interested in a fall poetry workshop? Join our mailing list and we’ll let you know when one is available.
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Roundup:
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What’s happening in PDX this month?
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Here are some Portland events on our radar:
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Have an addition for next month’s newsletter? Send us your suggestion.
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