Just in case you should find yourself in Yakima on August 21. INLAND POETRY presents BLUE MOON RISING Saturday, August 21, 2021 5:30pm Picnic • 7pm Poetry • 8pm Open Mic featuring Rena Priest, WA State Poet Laureate Xavier Cavazos Jampa Dorje Bethany Reid Johnny Roger Schofield Joanna Thomas HAPPY HEN BARN Peg & […]
I’ve been in a funk this summer, and feeling, frankly, as though all this writing is pointless. Aren’t there already enough books in the world? Despite good friends, despite a class in which I was assigned to write one metaphor per day. (Which can also be similes, “This weird funk, purple like Puget Sound at […]
“Keep a green bough in your heart, the singing bird will come” is a Chinese proverb that serves as epigraph to this new collection from Empty Bowl Press, selected and edited by Holly J. Hughes. In a time of drastic examples of climate change, in the face of predictions of “pornographic” damage to come (Mark Lynas, […]
It was lovely to follow a Tweet this morning and find my poem, “Catastrophe–,” in Issue 7 — the one year anniversary edition — of River Mouth Review. So much has happened this year that my head’s all aswim, and when I get an acceptance or rejection email I have to remind myself of the […]