Arab American poet Claudia F. Saleeby Savage, M.A., regularly collaborates with other disciplines and has been awarded residencies at Ucross, Jentel, Hambidge, and Mineral School. Her poetry, essays, and interviews have most recently been in Columbia Journal, Denver Quarterly, water-stone review, and BOMB. She is the author of Bruising Continents (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), The Last One Eaten: A Maligned Vegetable's History, The Hour of Anjali, Metal Used For Beauty Alone (The Poetry Box, 2023) and a 2018-2021 Black Earth Institute fellow. She has taught privately throughout the country, as a Writer in the Schools in Portland, and through Literary Arts in Portland. She is also a member of the Literary Arts Youth Program Advisory Council. Her collaboration with Detroit visual artist Jacklyn Brickman, reductions, about motherhood and ephemerality will be exhibited in 2023.
John C. Savage has been compared to Rahsaan Roland-Kirk, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Noah Howard, Herbie Mann, and Colin Stetson. He is known equally as "a thoughtful and rigorous improviser" and "a badass, knock-down-drag-out force to be reckoned with" (Willamette Week). John has received honors from New York University, the Oregon Arts Commission, and Portland's Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), and holds a Ph.D. from NYU in music performance and phenomenology. His album Black Heron and the Spoonbill (PJCE Records, 2015), featured Claudia's poetic work which "captured the feel of the album's carefully layered soundscapes" (Willamette Week). Savage’s latest recording, Nova Pangaea (PJCE Records, 2023), is with his quartet Lie Very Still. The album is a stunning testament to the beauty of the planet and the urgency of the climate crisis
