better than flowers
February 8, 2021
Sunday, February 14, 2021, is Valentine’s Day and here are a couple of sweet options.
The League of Canadian Poets presents Poetry in Union. You book a 15-minute time slot (7:00am to 1:00pm Pacific) with a Canadian poet and after a brief conversation you will receive a poem written specially for you and your sweetheart. Advance booking recommended.
From Noon to 3:00pm on Sunday, the Olympia Poetry Network (OPN) and Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry presents an international celebration of poets laureate: Laureate Lovefest. Poets laureate from Ireland, Canada, and across the U.S. will participate in a three-hour lovefest of readings and conversation, including special video readings by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser and current U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo. See the lineup (including Claudia Castro Luna, Kim Stafford, and former Youth Poet Laureat of Seattle Azura Tyabji) and register here.
February 14
February 14, 2020
found poem © j.i. kleinberg
Happy Valentine’s Day.
found Valentine
February 14, 2019
found Valentine © j.i. kleinberg
Valentine
February 14, 2018
Grant Snider draws comics about writing, literature, inspiration, art, books and other elements of the human condition.
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Cycles of Love by Grant Snider
love underfoot
February 14, 2017
There’s more than one way to bring poetry — and love — into your life. Here, for example, landscape architect Topher Delaney designed a Braille pathway for a Tiburon, California, house with the words of Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” spelled out in bricks.
Happy Valentine’s Day, however you write it.
found Valentine
February 14, 2016
found poem © j.i. kleinberg
love words
January 29, 2016
The Bellingham Herald will once again run love poems written by Whatcom County residents in honor of Valentine’s Day. Selected entries will run in the Sunday, February 14, Herald, and all accepted entries will run online at BellinghamHerald.com.
Poems can be emailed to dean.kahn@bellinghamherald.com; mailed to “Valentine’s Day poems,” c/o Dean Kahn, The Bellingham Herald, second floor, 1155 N. State St., Bellingham, WA 98225; or hand-delivered to the Herald’s customer service office.
Please include your name, age and town of residence. Also include your phone number, in case questions arise (phone numbers won’t be published). The deadline to submit a poem is Monday, February 8, 2016.
found Valentine: writing
February 14, 2015
found poem © j.i. kleinberg
words of love…
February 10, 2014
In honor of Valentine’s Day, the poetry reading series SpeakEasy presents local couples reading poems — their own and their favorites — on love and all its entanglements.
Thursday, February 13, 2014, 7:00pm
Mount Baker Theatre, Encore Room
104 N. Commercial Street
Bellingham, Washington
Adults only, please
Free (donations appreciated)
show some love
January 28, 2014
The Bellingham Herald invites Whatcom County residents to show some love for the paper’s annual love poem feature in honor of Valentine’s Day.
Selected entries will run in the Monday, February 10 Herald, and all accepted entries will run online at TheBellinghamHerald.com.
Poems can be emailed to dean.kahn@bellinghamherald.com; mailed to ‘Valentine’s Day poems,’ c/o Dean Kahn, The Bellingham Herald, second floor, 1155 N. State St., Bellingham, WA 98225; or hand-delivered to the Herald customer service office.
Please include your name, age and town of residence. Also, include your phone number, in case questions arise. The deadline to submit a poem is Friday, January 31, 2014.
