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 …
Last night at Hugo House in Seattle, outgoing Washington State Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen “passed the laurel” to 2016-18 Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall (Bugle). The celebration included readings by Marshall and Austen, as well as Pacific Northwest poets Rick Barot, Karen Finneyfrock, Jourdan Keith, Jane Wong, and more. Former Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken emceed. …
Here’s a poem by G.K. Chesterton, one of the Oxford Inklings: Gold Leaves Lo! I am come to autumn, When all the leaves are gold; Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out The year and I are old. In youth I sought the prince of men, Captain in cosmic wars, Our Titan, even the weeds …
Though the poems may be short, this is a deep collection with a vast scope. If you have avoided contemporary poetry due to its seeming impenetrability and difficulty, this is a fantastic choice to reconnect. There’s no tricky language; just readable poems that make you focus on the possibility of a pre-linguistic consciousness. It is …
The Bubble Collector by Vikram Madan is a wonderful collection of short, humorous poems for children and adults. Great for parents, grandparents and other grownups to read to young kids. Great for kids who can read by themselves. Great for adults to read. Madan is a Seattle-based artist and writer. His illustrations are whimsical and well-suited …
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 …
Is A Moose Boosh a kids’ book? A food book? An art book? A poetry book? I’m not sure where in the store to put it, so for a while I’ll keep it on our front counter, because it’s just the sort of exuberant, one-of-a-kind book you can’t help but pick up. Eric-Shabazz Larkin took …
Poetry in Motion, the poems on buses and bus stops, is returning to Portland–and Portlanders get to choose which poems! This year, in partnership with TriMet and the Poetry Society of America, Literary Arts will be placing poetry on bus stop benches and transit shelters–where the poems will be seen not only by TriMet users, …
Most book stores consider their booksellers worth their weight in gold. But at Eagle Harbor Book Company on Bainbridge Island, they can honestly say they have certified treasure on their staff. Bookseller and poet John Willson was recently selected as a 2014 Island Treasure by the Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council. The awards, started …
If the University of Idaho were not located in Moscow—right where the state’s handle attaches to its pan—the town itself would likely be no more than a crossroads, with, like many small towns in the West, a more or less equal number of churches and taverns, maybe a grain elevator or two. Moscow is a …
