Livingston, Montana poet Michael Earl Craig was educated at the University of Montana, the University of Massachusetts, and the Kentucky Horseshoeing School. He has published three collections of poetry, most recently Thin Kimono, out last year from Wave Books, the highly regarded poetry press in Seattle. There’s no sense of the cookie-cutter in Craig’s poetry tool kit; his poems feature an unusually …
“Describing Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout’s poetry means attempting to condense work that is already piano-wire taut . . . The relationship to song in her poetry is similar to that in a Thelonious Monk composition. Rhyme and rhythm are at work, very intelligent, unexpected, but the music is interior—to read her poetry is to overhear …
“To the extent that a life can have an agenda, my life’s agenda for a long time has included some sort of deliberative writing about the poetry of William Carlos Williams as a payment or at least an acknowledgement of a personal debt,” says poet, novelist and essayist Wendell Berry. The result is this absorbing volume, …
“An acclaimed writer delivers an eye-opening depiction of an autistic boy’s daily life and lifelong struggles to exist in a neurotypical world, in a groundbreaking novel told from the boy’s perspective.”—Mockingbird Books, Seattle
“Personal yet practical, Growing a Farmer includes the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs, and it will recast entirely the way we think about our relationship to the food we consume.”—Third Place Books, Seattle Timmermeister lives on Vashon Island, Washington and will read at Third Place Wednesday, February 23 at 7 pm.
Tegan Tigani discovered Queen Anne Books in 1999, after driving across the country to be with her boyfriend (now her husband). “I pulled through Steven’s Pass on a cold night in February,” she says. “After stretching my limbs and getting a good first night’s sleep in Seattle, Jordan suggested a little tour around our new …
“Beautiful Oops! is such a wonderful book! A tear in the page becomes a smile, a bent corner an ear. Vivid illustrations of all manner of artistic boo-boos teach us-young and not so young-that art is not about perfection but possibilities.”-Holly Meyers, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle
The Seattle authors who call themselves the Seattle 7 will sponsor a live novel October 11-16 as a benefit for literacy in the Northwest. At the event, thirty-six authors will take turns working on the same novel for six days at the Richard Hugo House (with happy hour and drink specials from 5-7pm). You’ll be …
Sixty people showed up Wednesday evening, April 28 at the University (of Washington) Bookstore’s main location in Seattle to listen to a reading of Helene Hanff’s classic (1948) 84 Charing Cross Road by employees Brad Craft and Pam Cady. The video is a bit basic, and you may need to turn the volume up, but …
