Entries by Bethany

Advice for Me

Finish What You Write The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of “aspiring” writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That’s how easy it is to clamber up the ladder to the second echelon. Write. And finish what you write. That’s how you break away from the pack and […]

Bow – Moo – Meow

Bow-Moo-Meow: Poems and Stories about Animals Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 7:00 p.m. Poetry, Prose: Jennifer Bullis, Rick Clark, J. Glenn Evans, David D. Horowitz, Bethany Reid, and Douglas Schuder Room 202, The Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North, Seattle Telephone: David, 206-633-2725 E-mail: David, rosealleypress@juno.com URL: www.rosealleypress.com; www.historicseattle.org

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, […]