A society is only as healthy as its teachers. Ours, you might say, is in trouble, partly because our teachers often feel underappreciated and unseen. Yet most of us can recall at least one teacher who had a powerful influence on our lives. From high school alone, I remember three: Marge Eggleston, a feisty fisherman’s wife who taught history; Ruth Emery, who taught literature; and Bob Beath, who galvanized the drama program at Sehome High School in Bellingham, Washington.
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David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT, wrote for LARB!
“Mosaic in Pompeii” by Diane Thiel featured in Verse Daily!
Today’s poem is by Diane Thiel
“A misunderstanding of a fresco,
a figure with papyrus on the east wall.
Someone assumed wrong two centuries ago,
but the name remained—
the House of the Tragic Poet.
URSULA LAKE author Charles Harper Webb interviewed by Poet Runner!
Charles Harper Webb, author of Ursula Lake, talks to the podcast, “Poet Runner.”
Author of SUBDUCTION Kristen Millares Young Interviewed on Bomb Magazine!
I met Kristen Millares Young at Fort Worden, an Indigenous gathering place taken by the federal government, which installed concrete bunkers in the cliffs overlooking Salish Sea. Decommissioned for military service, the fort now hosts nonprofit arts organizations and visitors who come for the views. Some say the place is haunted. If so, it is by the layers of history which underlie our fraught country, containing within it so many sovereign nations and buried truths. On this particular week in July, the barracks were filled with attendees of the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, where I was teaching fiction. Young took my class, and it was in one of those aging, airy rooms that I first read chapters from her novel Subduction. I wanted to swallow the story whole.
Gary Lemons featured on Postcards!
Welcome to Postcards! Grandma loves this show!Today we enjoy a chat with—and some readings by—internationally recognized poet GARY LEMONS (Port Townsend, WA).In honor of National Poetry Month, Jenny sits down with her longtime colleague, dear friend, and one of her favorite poets anywhere, Gary Lemons. Poetry and song lyrics are closely related, but how? They also have notable differences. Come hang out and join the discussion that will also feature live in-show poetry readings by Gary.
The Writer’s Almanac reads SINGER COME FROM AFAR author Kim Stafford’s poem!
Garrison Keillor reads Kim Stafford’s “Advice from a Raindrop.”
Part 2 of Gary Lemons’ Interview Series with Behind the Vision podcast!
“Hey, this is Chris from Behind the Vision and you’re listening to our second interview with Gary Lemons to discuss his quartet series SNAKE!”
John Weir interviewed in Grab Magazine!
Pamela Uschuk’s “Web” featured in The Long Islander Newspaper!
SUBDUCTION author Kristen Millares Young will speak on a panel at Orcas Island Lit Fest!
Saturday brings the main event: The festival’s featured authors will take to the stage for readings of their work and panel discussions like “Women Who Confound Expectations,” wherein Sonora Jha, Kristen Millares Young, Laura Read, and Alexandra Teague will discuss the shaping pressure that is exerted upon literature by the patriarchy. A book fair highlighting small presses and literary journals will also run Saturday afternoon.
Kim Dower featured in Broadway At The Russian Tea Room!
Charles Harper Webb writes about the power dynamics of being in a band and how that influenced his book URSULA LAKE, in CrimeReads!
Interlitq’s Californian Poets Interview Charles Harper Webb
DG: Your upcoming novel is scheduled to be released in May 2022. Without divulging too much, can you give readers a glimpse into the project and possibly also discuss the inspiration behind the work?
CHW: The easiest way to answer your first question is to quote the so-called tag-line for the book: “In the fast-paced, sexy, and very scary literary thriller Ursula Lake, a husband and wife trying to save their marriage and a rock musician trying to get his career back on track find big trouble, natural and possibly supernatural, in British Columbia’s spellbinding wilds.”
The book was inspired by several fishing trips I took into northern British Columbia back when I lived in Seattle. It’s gorgeous country, haunting and wild in every sense of the word—the perfect setting for the novel I wanted to write. The plot grew out of the characters, of course, but the setting, too.
AMERICAN BASTARD listed as a top ten Great Summer Read in Pittsburgh Magazine!
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM a Los Angeles Times BESTSELLER!
According to a report by the California Independent Booksellers Association, Kim Dower’s I Wore This Dress Today For You, Mom is Number 6 on the list of Top 10 hardcover books sold for the reporting week of May 15, 2022!
Congratulations, Kim!
Full list here, reported first on DailyNews.com!