Gobshite Quarterly 37/38, Quadriple Trouble

Leanne Grabel, M.Ed., is a writer, illustrator, performer and special education and language arts teacher (in semi-retirement). In love with mixing genres and media, Grabel has written and produced numerous spoken-word multi-media shows, including "The Lighter Side of Chronic Depression"; "Anger: The Musical"; and "The Little Poet." Her poetry books include Flirtations; Lonesome & Very Quarrelsome Heroes; Short Poems by a Short Person; Badgirls (a collection of flash non-fiction, as well as a theater piece); and most recently, Assisted Living, a chapbook of graphic prose poems. Grabel has just completed Tainted Illustrated, an illustrated stretched memoir, which is being serialized in THE OPIATE. Grabel and her husband Steve Sander are the founders of Café Lena, Portland's legendary poetry café of the 90s. Grabel has two daughters, an itty bitty granddaughter, and the best dog. leannegrabel.com

"Naked Athena" leads off Theodore Van Alst Jr.'s 2020 Portland Protest Portfolio in this 2021 volume of Gobshite Quarterly.This issue also contains: An essay by Catalunyan Cristina Álvarez Lopez & a hybrid memoir/poem by PDXer Leanne Grabel.Poems by Croatian poets Tomislav Marijan Bilosni¿ & Croatian Marija Dejanovi¿ & Monika Herceg, New Yorker poet J. Randall Brett, Greek poets Phoebe Giannisi & Thanos Gogos & Vasileia Oilonomou, Lithuanian poets Aüra Kazili¿nait¿ & Rimas Uzgiris; Estonian poet Triin Paja, & Washingtonian poet Armin Tolentino.Stories by Slovenian & Russian & Oregon writers Andrej Blatnik & Andrej Sen-Senkov & Joy McDowell.Graphix & Comics by Lithuanian artist Migl¿ Anüauskait¿ (profiled in the Dec. 23, 2019 New Yorker Talk of the Town), Melbournian artist Michael Fikaris, two pieces by multimedia PDXer Leanne Grabel, Rotterdam/Rio artist Tânia Cardoso, Croatian artist Miroslav Nemeth.¿Parallel text languages in this issue include English, Bulgarian, Spanish, Croatian, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog.