Poetry – Wallyhood

Commemorating Loved Ones, Talking about Loss: Open Books’ November Events

Post author:Erin L. McCoy
Post published:November 2, 2017
Post category:Books Poetry

Wallingford’s poetry-only bookstore, Open Books, will offer a strong lineup of unique events and readings in November, including a reading and discussion on grief and illness and the second installment of its Sunday After SAL reading, all free to attend. On November 4, the bookstore will host a reading unlike any other ever held at the store. Outgoing Seattle Civic Poet Claudia Castro Luna will launch her new collection, Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press), in conjunction with a Day of the Dead…

Carolina Ebeid and Charif Shanahan will read at Open Books in Wallingford at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 15. The event is free.

Acclaimed poets, anniversary celebration this weekend at Open Books

Post author:Erin L. McCoy
Post published:September 15, 2017
Post category:Books Poetry

Open Books, Wallingford’s poetry-only bookstore, has a literature-packed weekend ahead as it celebrates one year under the ownership of Billie Swift. Meanwhile, on Friday evening, two award-winning poets will read from their nationally acclaimed debut books. Friday’s event features Carolina Ebeid, author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press), and Charif Shanahan, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award for his debut, Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press). The…

Award-winning fiction writer Ann Pancake, left, delivers a craft talk for poets and prose writers alike at Open Books on Friday, May 19. Amelia Martens will direct a prose-poem workshop at Open Books on June 11.

Craft Talk at Open Books

Post author:Erin L. McCoy
Post published:May 17, 2017
Post category:Author reading Poetry

Open Books (2414 N. 45th St.) is hosting a craft talk this Friday, May 19, with fiction writer Ann Pancake, author of Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley (Counterpoint 2015) and finalist for the 2016 Washington State Book Award. Her talk, titled “Throb and Hum, A Story’s Song: Writing from Hearing Rather Than Thinking,” has proven to be just as useful for poets as for fiction writers. Among the questions Pancake asks: How does prose written with an underlying music move a…

Four local poets to read at Good Shepherd Center on March 24

Post author:Kim
Post published:March 15, 2017
Post category:Author reading Books Poetry Wallingford, Seattle

Four poets will read in what promises to be one of Seattle's best poetry events of 2017! Michael Spence, winner of the 2015 Criterion Poetry Prize, will read with U District poet and publisher David D. Horowitz and two poets who live in Wallingford: Priscilla Long and David Thornbrugh. This is a FREE event featuring not only poetry but light refreshments and small prizes. Friday, March 24 at 7:00 PM Good Shepherd Center: 4649 Sunnyside Ave N (Room 202) Poets: Priscilla Long,…

Poet Laureate to read to Wallingford children this Sunday

Post author:Erin L. McCoy
Post published:January 28, 2017
Post category:Books Kids Poetry

Former Washington State Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen will be the guest reader this Sunday at Open Books: A Poem Emporium. She will read for children young and old as part of the monthly Winnie-the-Pooh Reading Series at Wallingford's only all-poetry bookstore. The event will be 11-11:45 a.m. at 2414 North 45th St. Elizabeth Austen's collection Every Dress a Decision (Blue Begonia Press, 2011) was a finalist for the 2012 Washington State Book Award in poetry. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks,…

Reading, film screening raise awareness on homelessness

Post author:Erin L. McCoy
Post published:January 19, 2017
Post category:Books Charity Homelessness Movies Poetry

On Jan. 26, the night before Seattle's annual count of homeless individuals in King County, a poetry reading and film screening will seek to raise awareness about homelessness. The event will feature Seattle's Youth Poet Laureate, Angel Gardner, who in June talked to The Seattle Times about her own experience with homelessness, alongside Seattle's Civic Poet, Claudia Castro Luna, and writers from Recovery Cafe and Mary's Place. Attendees will also see a screening of Michelle de la Vega's film US THEM WE, which paired homeless…

A New Chapter for Open Books

Post author:Erin L. McCoy
Post published:October 27, 2016
Post category:Books Poetry Wallingford, Seattle

Open Books, one of only four poetry-only bookstores in the country, has successfully transitioned ownership and is re-invigorating its events calendar with readings, book launches, discussions, signings and a children's story time every Sunday. This Friday, Oct. 28, a reading and discussion will kick off a planned series on the ins and outs of translation. All events will be right here in Wallingford, at 2414 N. 45th St. The event, titled On Translation, will feature Alejandro de Acosta and Maged Zaher…

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