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Tag Archives: poetry
Boynton Awards, May 17
Hope you will join us on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at 7:00pm, for the 2023 Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony. The poets will read their winning poems and a chapbook of the year’s winning poems will be available … Continue reading
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Tagged awards, poetry, poetry readings, Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest
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the new snow
By Luther Allen the new snowfresh as if you’d never seen snow before,never seen the leaning maple, the galactic spireof seed clusters, rustblood of dock stems,or the perfect chickadees. soft as it takes you in, holy,like your first stepinto a … Continue reading
The Madrona Project
The Madrona Project is a series of anthologies produced by Empty Bowl Press. Each substantial volume is themed and assembled by a different editorial team. For the most recent edition, The Madrona Project: Vol III Number 1: Art in a … Continue reading
SpeakEasy 29: Waymaking
SpeakEasy 29: Waymaking presents an audience-friendly afternoon of poetry featuring Bill Yake, Empty Bowl Press, and a curated program of fine poets. Please join us at this free, public event at the Mount Baker Theatre Encore Room on Sunday, September 18, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bellingham, Bill Yake, Empty Bowl Press, Mount Baker Theatre, nature poetry, poetry, poetry readings, SpeakEasy
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SpeakEasy!
It’s been over 2 1/2 years since we’ve hosted a live, in-person SpeakEasy poetry reading. We feel like it’s time to rise from the electronic bonds of the Zoom world and see the actual (masked) faces and vaccinated bodies of … Continue reading
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May 19
around in the passagewe bait with last summer’s ling headsdrop the ringsdrift off. fifteen minutes or half a beerquick hoist, lurch overand spiny crabsscuttling everywhere females and smaller malesplucked overboardbig males in the bucketthey will die, be eaten and we will … Continue reading
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SpeakEasy 27…Round 4
Round 4 of SpeakEasy 27: A Spiritual Thread will be Zooming your way at 7:00pm Pacific on Saturday, February 6, 2021. Please join Dayna Patterson, Susan Alexander, Luther Allen, Jennifer Bullis, and Bruce Beasley for this next-to-last round of linked … Continue reading
SpeakEasy 27…Round 3
Please join us on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at 7:00pm Pacific, for the third round of poems from SpeakEasy 27: A Spiritual Thread. As with Rounds 1 and 2, Susan Alexander, Luther Allen, Bruce Beasley, Jennifer Bullis, and Dayna Patterson … Continue reading
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2021
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failed haiku
failed haiku, A Journal of English Senryu, has included one of my poems in Issue 56, page 197. If you’re curious about senryu, here’s a useful article from The Atlantic online.