In January I traveled to Book Tree in Kirkland to attend a celebration for the launch of the Western Washington Poetry Network. It’s been around for at least a year or two, but this was the official “big deal” launch. Representatives from almost every writing group and open mike from Vancouver, Washington, to Bellingham to […]
PEACE, PEACE they say, poems by Martine van Bijlert, Rainfed Press, 2024 (paper, $15.95). Every February for the last six or seven years I have taken part in a postcard exchange for peace. It’s somewhat informal. There’s no cost. A friend of mine runs the sign-up list and gets all our addresses straight. She calls […]
My review of Mary Crane’s Last Call of the Dark just went up today, on-line at Raven Chronicles. Follow the link to read the full review! As a bonus for reading my blog, here’s a poem – about spring, which cannot get here fast enough for me. Hazel Catkin I greeted the first spring-like day […]
I learned this week of the death, January 9, of my friend the literary scholar and poet Jayne Marek. My friend and my comrade poet. You can read her inspiring obituary here. My review of her new book, Dusk-Voiced (Tebot Bach, 2024), is waiting to be posted at Escape into Life (apparently there is a […]