Exciting news to share: we just released the newest Portland Tennis Courterly.
It’s our twelfth issue, but only our third or fourth with an editorial theme (Wet!). Tennis, like life, is inextricably linked with water, so devoting an entire issue to its most fundamental quality—wetness—felt only natural. And so: the Wet Issue.
Mother Foucault’s Bookshop hosted our release party, which began at six. At seven, just before the readings began, I glanced over at Benson in the poetry section—right as he abandoned his plan to string five racquets for the first five arrivals. The crowd was packed so tightly around his Prince Neos 1000 that he could barely thread a single string.