Congratulations to Seattle-based author Don Mee Choi for winning the National Book Award for Poetry for her book DMZ Colony, which was published by Seattle-based Wave Books. Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony is a tour de force of personal and political reckoning set over eight acts. Evincing the power …
Though missing a few obvious mentions of people and places such as Garth Stein, Sasquatch Books and a slew of bookstores (it could be fun to fill up the comments with omissions), this Ploughshares magazine Literary Boroughs series tour of Seattle does make for a good pamphlet tour of the literary city. It covers most of …
The good readers at the Seattle poetry publisher Wave Books say that summer is one of the best seasons to read poetry. Send them your snapshots of people reading poetry in their hammocks, at the poolside, at the mall, wherever, and they’ll post their favorites here. If your photo is posted, you’ll be entered in …
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 …
“ ‘Well of course they’re staring, we’re very interesting,’ is the sweet epigraph, attributed to ‘my grandmother,’ for CAConrad’s collection, The Book of Frank (Wave Books). And, my, but all here is interesting; staring cannot be avoided. Through a seductively simple, innocent telling, Frank’s surreal world unfolds in compelling fashion: page-to-page we’re taken on a …
