The Portland Poetry Confluence is made possible by generous contributions of time and resources from many people and organizations.
We extend our deepest gratitude to our major sponsors: RACC, Portland Arts & Culture, Atrium Movement & Events, & anonymous donors; as well as the PNCA Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing and the Portland State University Creative Writing Program; our programming partners and book fair exhibitors; Hotel Zags; Cascade Booksellers Association; Passages Bookshop; our dedicated volunteers — Mimi Beck, Kai Broach, Scott Brown, Alana Carrasco, Dylan Cook, Dodie Davey, Maja Elliott, Paul Fredrickson, Josephine LaCosta, CJ Maruyama, Beth Pickard, Lilli Rudine, and Clementine Gripman Whistler; our webmaster Samuel Miller; and to everyone in our audience, whose attendance literally animates all our efforts.
Organizing Committee
John Beer is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems and Lucinda. He teaches at Portland State University.
David Abel is a poet, editor, and interdisciplinary artist, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop in Portland, Oregon. Strange Attractors was released in July 2025 by Airfoil; other books are forthcoming from Chax Press, Himal, and Escandalar.
Rachel Berrington is a librarian for a scientific publisher and an avid reader of poetry.
Karolinn Fiscaletti is a poet, editor, and educator. She co-founded Old Pal Magazine, Literary Portland, and the Belmont Art Collective. Her poems and reviews can be found in Lana Turner, submission, The Gravity of the Thing, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere.
Dao Strom is an artist who works with three “voices” — written, sung, visual — to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. Her most recent hybrid project is Tender Revolutions/Yellow Songs, a song-cycle and set of 4 chapbooks of poetry, essay, and visual ephemera.
Consuelo Wise is a Guatemalan-American poet and visiting scholar at Portland State University. Her book-length poem b o y was published by Omnidawn in 2024.
Stephanie Adams-Santos is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, screenwriting, illustration and ritual. They are the author of several poetry collections and chapbooks, including Dream of Xibalba and Swarm Queen’s Crown.