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BACKWORDS blog explores the intersection between presence and history. The blog is a platform that honors the moment of encounter that any one person experiences—with art, literature, music, performance, or place. Often, reflections fit multiple categories—the opposite of a news program or style blog, BACKWORDS is not preoccupied with immediacy. An event does not need to be current to be relevant, nor does a memory need to be close to its origins to hold its potency.

Featured Posts

2020 and The One Where We All Try to Stay Sane

Tunnel Vision: Preparing to Hike the Pacific Crest Trail

Giverny, This Way

Happy Holidays!

My First Foray Into The Wonderful Wallowas

Spice and Rain

Traveling with Less

Antibiotics and Balinese Dance, A Winning Combination

Let's Confuse Each Other In German: How I Turned 30 in Paris

Recent Posts

Fall 2015 Redesign: An Interview with Poet, Wes Solether

On July 15th, the BACKWORDS Press team gets the extreme pleasure of re-releasing the work of our Fall 2015 poets, Jeff Alessandrelli, Wes...

Fall 2015 Redesign: An Interview with Poet, Jeff Alessandrelli

On July 15th, the BACKWORDS Press team gets the extreme pleasure of re-releasing the work of our Fall 2015 poets, Jeff Alessandrelli, Wes...

On Queer Spaces, Pride, and the Shooting in Orlando

For a while now, I’ve been debating the merits of Pride, and had all but decided this year to not make an effort to attend. The...

The God of Queer Things

If you ever need a good cry, read The God of Small Things. I read it for the first time in a literary theory course as an undergrad,...

Rihanna & This Heart "Work"

I don’t normally blog about things so soon after they happen, but sometimes a song like Rihanna’s “Work” will follow you and your homie...

John Irving Begins with the End

I was seated in the balcony of the First Congregational Church of Christ in Downtown Portland, a little soggy because I had waited an...

Spring 2016 Issue: Meet Laura Walker

May 1st, when BACKWORDS Press releases its Spring 2016 Issue, is just two weeks away! This time, we’ve been working behind the scenes...

Spring 2016 Issue: Meet Lourdes Figueroa

The Spring 2016 Issue is fast approaching and will be released on May 1st. Between now and our launch date, the editors at BACKWORDS...

Spring 2016 Issue: Meet Armin Tolentino

With the Spring 2016 Issue fast approaching its release date of May 1st, the editors at BACKWORDS Press sat down with each of our three...

Daughter and the Decline of Selfhood

Billboard’s Paley Martin claims that Daughter’s latest album, Not To Disappear, enables “each lyric [to morph] the melancholic into an...

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