Books published by Buckman Publishing LLC

Number 5 is alive. The fifth installment of the award winning anthology from Portland, OR. Packed with stories, art, poetry, a great entertainer and thought provoker. Join the new literary and art movement that is coming out of Portland, the most affordable city on the west coast!

The Scream & Other Dark Stories is fourteen tales where the monster is no longer within.In the eponymous The Scream, after a mysterious disease has infected the U.S., a journalist is forced into government mandated EMDR therapy to recover lost memories. Abigail Alone sees a woman losing her sense of identity after a betrayal. In Mathias & LEENA, a ghost finds unlikely love with a home computer system. To Everything,Turn introduces the reader to a family with a dark and powerful lineage on the day of the youngest brother's transformation. A mother's decision in Black Wings leads her into a pit of darkness that no mind could overcome.

Ye gawds! Fresh from receiving an Independent Book Publisher Award for Anthologies, Buckmxn Journal 004 comes along packing some of the finest words and art happening today. Wild stories from Kim Stafford, Michelle Ruiz Keil, and many others. Artists include Pace Taylor, Lehuauakea Fernandez, and Tony Aguero, to name a few! Also included and only available in this deluxe edition: special ephemera of a Katharine Jacobs image backed with a prose-poem by Jordan Hernandez.

Savvy writers. Sharp artists. Buckman delves into the contemporary Portland, OR art scene and delivers its score to the world's eager eyes.Savvy writers. Sharp artists. Buckman delves into the contemporary Portland, OR art scene and delivers its score to the world's eager eyes.

You might not be able to tell at first glance, but some people could be bears and othersnothing at all. Misfits governing a neighborhood without anyone there knowing it.Perhaps a devoted parent of vintage dolls. Or a visitor who seems so like us. All of themdoing their best, using the right tools at the wrong times. These are tales of people livingin the most dangerous lands, their own minds.

How are you at change, friend? Do you carry yourself with grace and dignity, or fall apart, dissolve into insignificance without humor? The Last Payphone on the West Coast is calling. Its 12 stories feature a shopping-cart tramp, a freshly released ex-con, a 1979 Cadillac hearse, and other folks from the periphery negotiating the age of smart phones and instantaneous expectations.

The savviest writers. The sharpest artists. Named after the legendary inner-southeast Portland neighborhood, Buckman Journal delivers its 2nd volume of literature and art.Want to know what's happening in the Portland scene? Here's the inside lane! Giddyup!

In the boozy aftermath of exciting sex, when mind and body become one, and from the space between mind and body, where the longing that travels physical distances comes to us not as undeviating lines but as radial waves, Liz Lampman's poems urge us to remember those we have truly loved and those we have craved after.The centerpiece of this collection is a heroic crown of sonnets.

The year is 2018. There's a woman in the oval office, the world's as equitable and harmonious as it's ever been, and a former pro-wrestler known as The Orange Bastard spends his days alone in the desert where he belongs. Except something went wrong. The timeline got split and reality is turned upside down. Drifting between these two parallel worlds is a secret agent from The Order of Athena, a group of powerful women whose origins pre-date known history. Though her cover identity has made her the second most ridiculous person in modern politics, the agent known as Sarah Palin is determined to heal the schism in the time/space continuum, body slam The Orange Bastard, and give us back the female future we deserve. With help from a mysterious diary, a roster of high-profile Athena friends, and a few bottles of chilled rosé, Sarah must uncover a mole in The Order and travel the world in search of a scientist whose obsession with Taylor Swift threatens to derail everything.In this comic thriller you will see the world as it is, and as it should be, while speeding towards a surprising conclusion that will having you laughing, crying, and just maybe even peeing your pants a little. Welcome to The Order. Welcome to 20!8.

Dismissing the watery soup served by contemporary culture, Buckman Journal is a collection of new literature and art offering meat, bone, and spice, insisting the broth pack flavor. Named after and based in Portland, Oregon's fabled inner south east, Buckman Journal scouts North America for outstanding talent, presenting it in a visually stunning volume.