Pointed Circle
Pointed Circle is an undergraduate student and faculty collaboration at Portland Community College. We feature contemporary art and creative writing in all genres. We aim to provoke readers by featuring new work from both emerging and established artists. Our staff changes with each annual edition of our magazine, testing inside-out what it means to have new perspectives in printed form.
Latest issue: Volume 38, 2022
We have been reckoning with a world that is full of holes, and we cannot deny our grief.
What is a hole? A hole is a hollow place in a solid body or surface. An aperture passing through something. A small or unpleasant place; an animal’s burrow. Spaces where something, or someone, once was. Wounds. Openings. Portals.
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Is a hole real? Does an absence of matter represent a real space? Can we perceive absence if absence itself is fundamentally immaterial?
We know full well that we perceive the loss we face. We feel it when we are taken from.
We invite you to consider that grief is the ceremony of reconciling with an absence. Grief is a natural precipitate to the formation of a hole: grief is the remainder of the thing asking what has been lost, and what it will be looking for next.
We editors-in-grief have assembled with care this collection of ceremony from our contributors so that we may explore together these openings and what may lay within.
Contents
- Your Secret My Wound
Pointed Circle, 2022
Poem by Mary Jo Cook
Editors
- Güzide Ertürk
- Luca Curleigàse
- Loulou Fernandez
- Kip Franich
- Samantha Henderson-Bluhm
- Geeta Lewis
- Celia Estelle Paglin Luce
- Winter Snow
- Abel Valladares Flores
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Pointed Circle is published annually in June and is available at the Cascade Bookstore.