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Brian Stephen Ellis
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Poetry, Prose, Teaching
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Backfence Mixed Media, true stories based on the theme 'snap out of it' Sat Nov 15 7 pm at Powell's City of Books with Frayn Masters, Dan Kennedy and others.
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I have a show this Friday, come out!
A bright yellow flyer for a show. White text over a pleasing geometric grid. Text reads: Poetry at How Convenient Friday September 26 at 7 ish Free* with poets Brian S Ellis Carrie Ivy Christopher Diaz Mindy Nettifee. How Convenient 6016 NE Glisan st. Portland Oregon.
September 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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September 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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August 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Here's the cover I made.
July 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This is tomorrow
Bold Coffee and Books presents Steve Arndt and the Spanbauerians Friday July 18 7:00 pm
July 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Over 350 episodes of television, and not a single bad line reading or take. Anchors every scene.
Actress Sharon Gless looking chic in black and laughing
July 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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I'm reading at the Ghost Town open mic next Thursday in Vancouver, WA
Collage style flyer for Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic. Hosted by Christopher Luma and Morgan Paige, featuring Brian Stephen Ellis. Cut outs of a microphone, comic book panel of a man blowing a horn, a woman with bangs touching some kind of bulbous cylinder and Barack Obama's face. 7 pm at Arts at the Cave 108 Evergreen Blvd Vancouver, WA.
June 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Pulled a rotten onion apart with my hands (horny)
Shreds of a rotten, baseball sized red onion on a cutting board. Lime accidentally in frame.
May 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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This Sunday at 10:30 am I am reading poems alongside a string quartet.
Flyer for event series, Chatter, with black and white photos of Brian Stephen Ellis, Emily Cole, Shin-young Kwon, Jennifer Arnold and Marilyn de Oliveira
May 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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May 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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If you call this number today you can hear me read a poem
In a two color blue and cream drawing by Anis Mojgani, a person holding a coffin is talking to a ghost. Top reads: be presented with the quiet and unseen mysteries you have been carrying. Bottom: Call Oregon's Tele-pome phone line 503 928 7008. New poems daily through April.
April 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
Main cast of drama Suits, season 1
March 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
March 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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My local coffee shop/bar called Coffee Beer asked me to write a poem on the occasion of their seventh anniversary. Here it is:
Weather Is Not A Season My life revolves around the clock. Tiny virgo that lives in my pocket. The cruel dom perched at the edge of my nightstand. The schedule is punishing me and each little endurance comes as shock, I pantomimed weakness but kept surviving, surviving, surviving— Moment to moment worming out of the labyrinth of stasis. Just barely made it to my shift, the vibrating atrophy of completion, sometimes small talk is the only talk you can stomach. The news on the telephone is breaking your heart. A regular can reduce you to tears with kindness. It is cold every spring. Every year sometime complains about the rain. We love to complain about the things we can’t control, and that list keeps getting bigger. But spring does not mean warmth. Summer is not the same thing as the sun. We do not revolve around summer. States are not traits. We manage to wake up every day and live, despite the indignity of age. Inertia does not ask permission, and now here we are thick in the confusion of the unrecognizable future that was deeper than we even knew possible. Spring means the worms are singing. They are the tiny dragons of the earth. They, like us, cultivate the fire of anger, swirling like disgust in the gut. In the rain, and the cold, and the darkness we throw off the tyranny of sickness and begin the difficult, painful, work of resurrection
March 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I'm going to AWP this year, and reading at this in Long Beach Thursday night!
Flyer for a AWP offsite event. University of Hell and Limit Zero Press. Katon DePena, Ryan Richie, Greg Jacobs, Greg Gerding, Brian Ellis, Dylan Krieger. CJ Cleo Cassettra. Thurs March 27 8:00pm Free. The Pike Restaurant and Bar 1836 E 4th St. Long Beach CA
March 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Richard Brautigan
March 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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My fifth collection of poems, Against Common Sense, is a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards
The five covers of the finalist for 2025 Oregon Book Award for poetry: Sweet Movie by Alisha Dietzman, Recurrent by Darla Mottram, A Rupture in the Interiors by Valerie Witte, ten cent flower & other territories by Charity E. Yoro, and Against Common Sense by Brian S Ellis.
January 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Important! Does anyone from the city of Corvallis know if they still have the trebuchet from Northern Exposure in their posession???!??
Text reads: The Fling Thing trebuchet was built for Northern Exposure "Burning Down the House" s3e14. It was used 17 times for flinging 9 pianos, 4 wood caskets and 4 steel caskets. In 1997 the city of Corvallis OR bought it for a Da Vinci Days festival
January 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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We're in a Mary Oliver place, I see
Screenshot from two different skeets from two different poets, Chen Chen and Han VanderHart both quoting Mary Oliver, "Joy is not made to be a crumb."
January 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Five predictions for 2025
AI gloves, costume gloves you can wear that make you look like you have six-ish fingers Taft look-alike contests Politically motivated bank robberies and online arguments about the ethics of them A bestelling novel published where the author claims they wrote it through automatic writing/they were possessed by a god of a distant planet Viral telephone pole flyers
December 31, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Kind of a slow reading year, but also I was reading Gravity's Rainbow from April to October and hated it the whole time.
December 31, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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"This is why everyone calls me Fuckhead" Enjoying another holiday classic!
Actor Billy Crudup as Fuckhead, from the movie version of Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. Fuckhead is crying in the passenger seat of a pickup truck because he sat on some baby bunnies while high on amphetamines.
December 25, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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The bagels came out particularly well this morning
Eight bagels, 4 everything on the left and 4 plain on the right. On oven sheet.
December 24, 2024 at 5:34 PM