Oh, my. I have been a fan of Ellen Bass for decades. And now this gorgeous, gob-smacking book. Ellen Bass’s Indigo (Copper Canyon, 2020), makes me want to take the mewling newborn sheaf of poems I’m calling a manuscript and dump them in the shredder. I’ll just start over. She has a poem for that feeling—in […]
I first met Raúl Sánchez in 2017 at Book Tree in Kirkland, where I heard him read his poems. He is a gracious presence, the sort of person who makes you feel visible, as though he is graced by your presence, rather than the other way around. He is the poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, […]
Today’s blogpost comes to you courtesy of Bellingham poet, peace worker, and my tireless friend Carla Shafer. On Tuesday, 27 April 2021—6:00pm to 7:00pm—Village Books hosts Kim Stafford for the Bellingham launch of his latest collection, Singer Come From Afar. (Click on the link to go to Village Books.) This event is part of the Nature of Writing Series […]
It has been my great pleasure this weekend to reread Kathleen Flenniken‘s Post Romantic (University of Washington Press, 2020), and now to share it with you. Kathleen Flenniken served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012-2014 and is a Washington State Book Award recipient. Her previous books are Famous, which won the 2005 Prairie Schooner Poetry […]