Remembering Judith Arcana 

Portland’s own underground abortionist-turned-poet was a legend. She was also my friend.by Megan BurbankThis story was originally published in our sister paper, Portland Mercury.
In 2017, Judith Arcana sent a postcard to the old Mercury offices in Old Town/Chinatown. I was the arts editor at the time—it was my first real journalism job—and after many stories covering local theater (I still think about the plays I saw at Shaking the Tree) and books (a reading at Powell&rsqu