Calling America

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7November2007

The Detention Bar

Posted under places beginning with: P; Portland; Oregon.

This latest story comes to us in poetic form from Robert Bruce, an American Poet living in Portland, Oregon. He wrote this poem partly at home and partly at the Detention Bar - one of several drinking places inside the renovated elementary school McMenamin’s Kennedy School in NE Portland. For more provocative and moving poetry, […]

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