Elder Voices Project

July 15, 2024/0 Comments/in Reading /by Bethany

Just letting you know about a submission opportunity for Whatcom County poets and writers. The workshops (notice mine is TOMORROW!) are open to all ages. Registration is NOT required, and the workshops are free to all.

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HONEYCOMB, poems by Carol FrostSeptember 1, 2024 - 3:19 pm
I have made it through the Sealey Challenge, through 32 total books and out the other side of August (34 if you count Ravenna Press’s Triple as 3 chapbooks). I posted a photograph on Instagram of each cover with the day’s number, with the exception of this book. (For day 13, I posted another cover […]
John Egbert, BEARINGSAugust 22, 2024 - 6:35 pm
BEARINGS, John Egbert. Bellingham, WA, 2024, 102 pages, $15.99, paper. LANDMARKS, Robert Macfarlane. Penguin, UK, 2016, 448 pages, $18.00, paper, penguin.co.uk. Landmarks is about language, specifically it is about language that describes land. “It is a field guide to literature I love,” Macfarlane writes, “and it is a word-hoard of the astonishing lexis of landscape […]
Molly Tenenbaum, THE ARBORISTSAugust 12, 2024 - 2:04 am
THE ARBORISTS, Molly Tenenbaum. MoonPath Press, P.O. Box 445, Tillamook, OR 27142, 2023, 98 pages, $16.99, paper, http://MoonPathPress.com. Eleven days down on the Sealey Challenge, twenty days to go. My brain is bursting, and though I’m making notes for future blogposts, there’s a tendency for everything to begin blurring together. Then (honestly, almost every day), […]
Michele Bombardier, WHAT WE DOAugust 6, 2024 - 2:33 am
WHAT WE DO: POEMS, Michele Bombardier. Kelsay Books, Aldrich Press, 2018, 86 pages, $17 paper, www.kelsaybooks.com. Hospitals on fire, wasps nests, witchhazel scratching at windows, wine that tastes like relief, poems like prayer—it’s hard not to swoon over this book. I agree with Dorianne Laux, who (in her cover blurb) writes: “At its center, What […]
Join the Sealey ChallengeJuly 31, 2024 - 6:53 pm
All morning I thought it was August 1st. Nope, only July 31st, and PLENTY of time remaining for you to line up 31 poetry books to read in August. Yes, check the library! (Or use the challenge as an excuse to visit your favorite independent bookstore.) Yes, this is your chance to burn (delightedly) through […]
How to Behold Rae ArmantroutJuly 26, 2024 - 4:12 pm
WOBBLE, Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459, 2018, 160 pages, $14.95 paper, www.wesleyan.edu/wespress. PARTLY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 2001-2015, Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459, 2018, 252 pages, $19.95 paper, www.wesleyan.edu/wespress. Rae Armantrout has published more than two dozen books of poetry, one of which, Versed, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. […]
My Poem at Verse DailyJuly 21, 2024 - 3:17 pm
I’m thrilled to have a poem from The Pear Tree featured (today!) at Versedaily.org. (The link will take you to my poem.) There are a number of poem-a-day sites on the Internet now, and I subscribe to a bunch of them. Poetry Daily and Verse Daily were the forerunners of this trend, and it’s an honor, […]
Photo by DS stories: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-notebook-with-a-broken-pencil-on-scattered-white-papers-6991503/Elder Voices ProjectJuly 15, 2024 - 4:10 pm
Just letting you know about a submission opportunity for Whatcom County poets and writers. The workshops (notice mine is TOMORROW!) are open to all ages. Registration is NOT required, and the workshops are free to all.
Random thoughts about daughtersJuly 10, 2024 - 7:07 pm
Alternate title: the writer with children. This started out as one sort of reflection, and turned into another. My older two daughters turn 31 today, which I find completely unbelievable. Their baby sister turns 25 in 10 days. I was never a young mom. I was 37 when we adopted Annie and Pearl, and 43 […]
J. I. Kleinberg, DESIRE’S AUTHORITYJuly 5, 2024 - 11:44 pm
DESIRE’S AUTHORITY, J. I. Kleinberg, from Triple No. 23. Ravenna Press, Edmonds, Washington, 2023, pp. 61-80, paper, $12.95. http://ravennapress.com. Last Saturday, I slipped away from the Chuckanut Writers Conference to attend a reading, at Dakota Art in downtown Bellingham, featuring Anita K. Boyle, Sheila Sondik, and J. I. Kleinberg. Yes, the conference was wonderful, with […]

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