silver anniversary reading
October 21, 2019
Floating Bridge Press is 25 and will celebrate the occasion with release readings from the 2019 Chapbook Competition winner, Katrina Roberts, finalist, Elizabeth Vignali, and the inaugural winner of the Evergreen Award Tour Full-length competition, Jory Mickelson.
Join in the celebration at The Elliott Bay Book Company on Sunday, November 3, 2019, at 3:00pm.
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October 20, 2019
2019 Walk Award
By Tor
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*Copyright 2019 by Tor. Broadside illustrated by Angela Boyle.
Poet’s statement: I am 61 years old, receiving social security and I am a self taught artist for a hobby. I’m better at visual art and music and call myself a dollar store Van Gogh. Metric is about the song Eclipse by the band Metric. I liked the song and Metric was a result of word play which I do often in my head. If I thought of a way to word it with meaning in English and have it sound Japanese, I would have done so.
Bellingham: reading & book launch
October 19, 2019
Stefania Heim, who will be teaching a workshop on ekphrastic writing on Saturday, October 26, 2019, will also be the featured poet at a dual book launch, 4:00pm on Sunday, October 27.
BRUNA press + archive in downtown Bellingham will present the sixth event in the MUTTER COURAGE program, an occasional reading series and conversation space curated by Yanara Friedland. Stefania Heim will read from Geometry of Shadows (A Public Space Books, 2019), her translation of the Italian-language poetry of surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, and her own collection, Hour Book (Ahsahta Press, 2019). The event is free.
Reasons to go to… New Haven
October 18, 2019
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has opened a new exhibit, Beyond Words: Experimental Poetry and the Avant-Garde, which will remain on view through December 15, 2019. Focused on the experimental poetry of post-war Europe and its importance as political and social expression, the exhibit incorporates text, image, and sound. To learn more, have a look at the 40-page Beyond Words catalog, available online as a PDF.
reading the Raven
October 17, 2019
Raven Chronicles may have ended its run as a literary journal, but it is far from finished. Next Thursday, October 24, 2019, you can join a constable, an unkindness, or a conspiracy of ravens (all words for multitudes of such corvids) for a reading and reception for Stealing Light, A Raven Chronicles Anthology, Selected Work, 1991-1996. The evening will feature emcee Paul Hunter and readings by Bart Baxter, Alicia Hokanson, Anna Odessa Linzer, and Carletta Carrington Wilson. Find them at the Jack Straw Cultural Center starting at 7:00pm. Free.
In the ‘far from finished’ category, we should also mention that Raven Chronicles is beefing up its YouTube channel:
On our channel we have posted many readings from 2014 to the present, but in the coming months we will be updating the site to include all the readings we have videotaped in the past few years, at Jack Straw Studios, the Columbia City Gallery, and other venues. On the site now: Voices From The Margins, 6/1/19 Anna Bálint Library Reading/Talk; Stealing Light: A Raven Anthology reading at Seattle Downtown Library, 10/21/18; Bridges Not Walls: a collaborative/ bilingual presentation, 2/28/17; Jack Straw Reading, 11/18/16, from Raven’s Vol. 24, Jack Straw Writers Program, 1997-2016.
on poetry
October 16, 2019
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde
(October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)
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quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray
for what ails you
October 15, 2019
If the aches and pains, existential or otherwise, of living in the real world are catching up with you, Poetry Rx probably has a prescription that will relieve your distress, or at least distract you for a few minutes. Readers write in to describe their ailments and resident poets Kaveh Akbar, Sarah Kay, and Claire Schwartz offer their best remedies. Find Poetry Rx at the Paris Review.
