starts this evening!
May 17, 2012
It’s not too late to take advantage of the workshops, talks, displays and other poetic events on tap for the Skagit River Poetry Festival, in La Conner, Washington. Visit the festival website to view the schedule (and more) and buy tickets. The Skagit River Poetry Festival is also on Facebook. See you there!
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festival poster by Maggie Wilder
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celebrate with Mom…
May 13, 2012
Take Mom to the park and enjoy art, music and poetry… today in Bellingham’s Big Rock Garden. Featured poets are Susan J. Erickson, Sheila Sondik, Rena Priest, Paul Fisher, Jennifer Bullis, James Bertolino and Anita K. Boyle. The event is free, as is the shuttle bus from Bloedel Donovan Park. Happy Mother’s Day!
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this, too, just in!
April 27, 2012
poetry reading 101
April 26, 2012
If you’ve found your way to this site, it’s quite possible you’ve attended plenty of poetry readings. Then again, perhaps not. If you’re uncertain about the etiquette or attitude, first have a look at this good humored article from Nashville Scene: How to Attend a Poetry Reading, then click over to the NW Lit Events page and cozy up to a reading coming soon to your neighborhood.
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Illustration by Paula Becker
poetry reading…
April 21, 2012
Come hear some poetry at this free reading, April 28, featuring poets whose work is included in Phrasings. (And if you haven’t yet grabbed your tickets for Phrasings, April 27/28/29, there may still be a few available at Village Books, the Coop and at Brown Paper Tickets.)
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National Poetry Month: think local
April 5, 2012
Still not sure how to celebrate National Poetry Month? Look no further than Bellingham’s own always-independent Village Books.
Village Books provides a convenient link to help you sign up for the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day program.
The store is offering a 20% discount on all adult and children’s poetry books throughout the month of April. (That would of course include the must-have POETRY WALK: Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest, The First Five Years)
Have a look at the Village Books calendar to peruse this month’s fabulous lineup of free poetry readings and other events in the store’s Readings Gallery (lower floor).
And, when you’re in the store, don’t miss the inspiring exhibit of altered book artwork on the walls of the Readings Gallery.
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poetry reading…Bellingham…Tuesday…
March 31, 2012
The Western Library Reading Series presents a free reading by Carol V. Davis from her new book, Between Storms. The event will take place at the Library Skybridge, Wilson Library, Western Washington University, Bellingham, at 4:00pm on Tuesday, April 3, 2012.
In addition to Between Storms (Truman State University Press, 2012), Carol V. Davis won the 2007 T.S. Eliot Prize for Into the Arms of Pushkin: Poems of St. Petersburg. Her other books are It’s Time to Talk About… (bilingual Russian/English, 1997) and two chapbooks, Letters From Prague and The Violin Teacher. Twice a Fulbright scholar in Russia, she was the 2008 poet-in-residence at Olivet College, Michigan, and teaches at Santa Monica College, California. Her poetry has been read on NPR and Radio Russia and has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Natural Bridge, Crab Orchard Review, Mid-American Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review and in anthologies including New Poets of the American West (2010), Mamas and Papas (2010), Lavandaria: Women, Wash and Words (2009), etc. She read at the Library of Congress in November 2010 and in August 2011 was (the first) poet-in-residence at Homestead National Monument of America in Nebraska.
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poetry, tonight!
March 3, 2012
This evening at Western Washington University, Mary Cornish, Marie Eaton and Stan Tag will perform One Thing to Say: Celebration of Words in Three Voices – Song, Poem and Prose in a benefit for the Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies Conant Dodge Scholarship Fund. Information here.
another busy poetry evening…
February 24, 2012
Two stellar poetry events on the books for Friday, 24 February 2012 in Bellingham.
At Lucia Douglas Gallery at 7:00pm, The Poet As Art presents a reading featuring poets Terry Martin (above left) and Casey Fuller (above center). Local poet Matthew Brouwer (not pictured) will open. More at the Egress Studio blog.
At Honey Moon at 8:00pm, Jessica Lohafer (above right) will read from her new book of poems, What We Cannot Keep. More in The Bellingham Herald.
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reminder…today!
February 23, 2012
Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier, Canadian poets and writers, perform readings from their works and reflect on the relationships formed by language, memory and writing genres. Today, Thursday, 23 February, 4:00 p.m., WWU Communications Facility (CF) 110 (campus map), Bellingham. Download the flyer (PDF, Adobe Reader required).
