From Bookselling this Week By Liz Button on Tuesday, Sep 20, 2016 Seattle’s poetry-only bookstore, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, held its grand reopening on Saturday, September 17, celebrating its new lease on life under the ownership of former customer Billie Swift. This past April, husband-and-wife team John Marshall and Christine Deavel announced they were …
From Shelf Awareness: Open Books Drops Readings, Promotes ‘Communal’ Events In an unusual move that runs against the grain of independent bookselling trends, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, Seattle, Wash., last month began a new policy of no longer hosting poetry readings. Owners John Marshall and Christine Deavel said in a store post that the …
1. Ask an expert about a book of poems. Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle is one of two poetry-only stores in the country, and these bookseller poets know their stuff. Let’s keep them busy this month. Call (206-633-0811) and ask for a recommendation from John or Christine based on a poet or poem you …
In the great Preston Sturges movie, The Lady Eve, a dowager turns to the late-arriving dinner guest as he slips in next to her and proclaims “The fish was a poem!” in perfect high-haughty English. Sometimes it does seem that anything called a poem is a poem. My happy task here is to offer three …
Open Books: A Poem Emporium is one of two poetry-only bookstores in the US. Married co-owners John Marshall and Christine Deavel live in the bungalow above the store. Maybe this goes without saying, but they are both poets (read her work here and here, his work, as J.W. Marshall, here and here). We asked them a …
