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Open Books: A Poem Emporium

May

10

2022

Open Books Welcomes Customers to New Space in Seattle

Congratulations to Seattle’s “Poem Emporium,” Open Books, on their gorgeous new space in Pioneer Square in Seattle. The store’s physical reinvention is accompanied by a fantastic new website for online shopping. Click browsing categories like New & Noteworthy; Black Poets on Justice, Abolition & Black History; and Poetry for the Planet to discover treasures from …

Mar

24

2020

Seattle-area Bookstores Postpone Sixth Annual Independent Bookstore Day

Out of an abundance of caution and concern for everyone, this year’s Seattle Independent Bookstore Day, originally scheduled for April 25, has been postponed. August 29, 2020, a Saturday, is the tentative new date. Visit our SIBD web page seattlebookstoreday.org. It lists all of the bookstores involved in this year’s event. Many, if not most, …

Apr

19

2019

journal and poetry books for inspiration

On Writing Poetry

From the Island Books newsletter April 17, 2019 I’ve been writing poetry, or something resembling that, consistently since I was eleven years old. I’ve always liked words, the energy, the power, and the meanings that all vary. Unlike prose writing, poetry offers up a canvas of possibility in its negative space. I found I was …

Dec

27

2017

Memory Foam

Memory Foam by Adam Soldofsky

Gentle, confident poems cascade, unnamed, through a muted urban landscape, eventually diving off of big ideas atop delicate stems. Soldofsky has a knack for condensation, which is, perhaps, one for word-choice: an expansive vocabulary attuned to the microscopic. And a voice I wish to inhabit. Smart, playful, observant, energizing. A wonderful debut. –Alexander Moysaenko, Open …

May

2

2017

1

remark

Seattle Bookstore Day 2017: Champions’ Journey

Saturday April 29 marked the third national Independent Bookstore Day and the third Seattle Bookstore Day. In Seattle, the weather held and bookstore love was out in full force. The Seattle Bookstore Day Indie Challenge increased to 23 participating stores, with a visit to 19 stores required to achieve Indie Champion status (and a 25% discount …

Aug

14

2015

Christine Deavel

Christine Deavel of Open Books:
Not Quite Bidding Goodbye

This week, Christine Deavel, co-owner of Open Books: A Poem Emporium in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle and bookseller for 26 years, announced that she is moving on from the store to accept a position as a family and patient liaison at Harborview Medical Center. Below, we have her sweet letter to Open Books’ customers, followed by an …

Feb

24

2015

Audrey Hepburn beatnik dance in Funny Face

Open Books Opts Out of Traditional Poetry Readings

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 …

Nov

12

2013

4

remarks

John W. Marshall

Anatomy of a Book Sale

A book, handed with knowledge and genuine enthusiasm from one person to another can have thoroughly unforeseen consequences. Here’s a clear example… Early one afternoon a woman spent a deliciously long time, an hour at least, pondering books in the store. She sat with a variety of books stacked next to her on the bench …

Jun

14

2013

Christine Deavel

Poetry on Vacation

What? There’s beach-reading to be found on the poetry shelves? You bet, stretch out on the chaise and we’ll dip into a few. Sometimes the summer books that beckon are playful, quirky, maybe even refreshingly unsettling. James Tate’s contemporary poetry fables fit that definition to a T, and his latest collection, The Eternal Ones of …

Apr

26

2013

2

remarks

Keeping the Rant in its Pen

His was a seemingly innocent question. I was prone in my dentist’s chair about to wait ten eventless minutes in the process of having a crown put in when Brian, my dentist, asked, “Did you bring a Kindle?” He was offering to retrieve it from the waiting room so that I’d have something to read. …

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