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Bear Star Press

Sep

8

2012

Deavel Wins a Washington State Book Award

We’re very proud of  Christine Deavel, co-owner of Open Books: A Poem Emporium (and an NWBL columnist!), who just won a Washington State Book Award for her poetry collection, Woodnote. We interviewed her about the collection last year. Congrats, Christine! Congrats also to fiction winner Peter Mountford (A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism); biography/memoir winner …

Sep

6

2011

Christine Deavel

That Intimate Vastness: Life in the
Poe Biz with Christine Deavel

Christine Deavel’s first book, Woodnote, has just been published by Bear Star Press and has won the 2011 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. Author Rebecca Brown calls Deavel “a kind of Midwest nature mystic whose words call us to see what we see clearly and then to call the things we see by their true names.” …

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