Hear ye, hear ye! This weekend, folks should flock to the AuburnFest Book and Small Press Fair held Saturday August 11th from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm in the Community and Events Center in Les Gove Park at 1005 12th St SE Auburn, WA 98002 Local authors, poets, journals, small publishers, and book stores have been invited to participate. The event …
At the end of July, Norton sales rep Dan Christiaens hosted Poetry Night at the Ballpark with the staff of Seattle’s Open Books, and, for some reason, me. Dan gave us all copies of Norton’s Baseball Haiku, too. The crew declaimed some memorized verse between innings, but mostly we just watched the game and had a …
In his recent essay, Running from the Borders, haiku publisher and author David Ash admits he’s pretty okay with Borders’ possible closure. “Why am I content to let Borders die?” he asks. “Well, at the risk of sounding petty, because Borders had already declared me dead . . .” Read the rest here.
