Listen to Treat, a series of short word and music collaborations curated by Mary Rechner and produced by Core Productions/Oliver Sims. For your coffee break, tea time, happy hour or midnight snack.

Treat Volume 2: Spring 2022

Listen to origin story: second generation by Aliera Dulcinea Zeledon-Morasch. Zeledon-Morasch is a second-generation Nicaraguan immigrant based in Portland. Her creative non-fiction, prose poetry, and audio work explore family, ancestry, imagination, the forgotten, and the limits of language. Aliera completed an MFA in Writing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and you can find her work in Oregon Humanities and The Felt print literary journal. She strives to use storytelling to explore the impact family and ancestry have on the present, and currently works with high-school students to help them pursue the futures they want and imagine.

Listen to “Turmerica” by fiction writer Amanda Gersh. Gersh was raised in South Africa and now lives in Portland, OR. Her stories have been published in Tin House, One Story, The Mississippi Review, and others. More at amandagersh.com

Listen to “Smith-Corona” by Alex Behr. Behr is a musician and writer in Portland, OR, who grew up in Virginia around singing, banjos, and typewriters. She is the author of “Planet Grim: Stories.” Visit www.alexbehr.com

Listen to “childhood is memory” by Maya McOmie. McOmie is a biracial and bicultural poet with ties to both sides of the Pacific. McOmie writes about identity, language, and the elusiveness of memory. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the Ohio State University. You can find some of her work at Mantra Review. When she isn’t working or daydreaming, she is usually making up songs or writing down her weird dreams.