Entries by Bethany

Upcoming Reading!

StringTown Magazine & StringTown Press Reading | Sept. 14 Readings from area StringTown contributors including Bethany Reid, Judith Skillman, Larry Crist, Polly Buckingham, Caroline Allen, Anita Boyle, and James Bertolino, followed by a reception and signing. 7 p.m., Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, free. Wow, my name on the Seattle Times Literary Arts Calendar! I’d […]

Happy Birthday, Dad

It’s the 87th anniversary of my dear father’s birth. So here’s a poem, written around 1990 and never published. Deer From the kitchen window I watch my father fence in chickenwire two young trees, one apple, one plum. Deer that visit each dusk have cropped the tender growth of these, Mom’s roses, too.  The neighbor, […]