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Meet Mayoral Candidate Katie Wilson

Meet Mayoral Candidate Katie Wilson

On Wednesday, July 23 at 6:30 Seattle Mayoral candidate Katie Wilson will discuss quality of life and culture in Rainier Beach with an emphasis on efforts to create affordable housing for artists and culture workers. If you are not familiar with Katie Wilson, you can...
Winter in America (Again Monday, July 21 via Zoom

Winter in America (Again Monday, July 21 via Zoom

From Bill O’Daly: Dear Friends and Family, A reading based on Winter in America (Again, an anthology developed in response to the 2024 election by poets Katie Sarah Zale, president of the Arizona State Poetry Society, and Paul E. Nelson, founding director of the...
Resistance as Writing

Resistance as Writing

How can one write poetry about current political events without resorting to invective or rhetoric? Why is this important? Poetry is a use of language that is capable of a kind of depth of being that rhetoric is not. Rhetoric is opinion, which is centered in the human...

Eagle Harbor Book Company Canceled

Dear Faithful Blog Reader! The Winter in America (Again reading scheduled for tonight, Friday, July 11, 2025, has been canceled. The tour’s last stop is tomorrow, Saturday, July 12, at 2pm at the Columbia City Gallery, Among the featured poets are three from out...
Poetry Postcards and Zen

Poetry Postcards and Zen

An amazing testimonial for the Poetry Postcard Fest though it was not intended to serve that purpose. It is from Kosho Itagaki of Temple Eishoji (where I sit three days a week.) He writes: 🚤 Standing at the Brink Choosing Not Productivity, but Prayer We live...