Begin Anywhere series: Molly Bendall, Jami Macarty & Daniel Tiffany.
4 p.m. May 23 (Saturday)
10 Irwin Way, Orinda in the chapel.
Walkable from Orinda BART, plenty of parking.
@thirst_and_surfeit@mollybendall@danieltiffany
Action shots from Saturday's reading at Open Books: A Poem Emporium! W/thanks and thanks and thanks to Open Books @openpoetrybooks for making space, to Sam for their generous hosting, and to my poetry companions Laura Da' @lauralouiseda and Ching-In Chen @chinginchen !
Rhodendrons of Portland, where last eve I read to vibrant citizens of Poetryland from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘵 w/Elizabeth Robinson who read from 𝘝𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘹, and Valerie Witte who read cool new poems at marvelous Passages Bookshop! A garden of poetic delights! W/a bow in the direction of David Abel for graciously hosting us.
@shellthief@thirst_and_surfeit@passages_bookshop
✨Seattle friendlies! I'll be back in town briefly to read at a new books showcase at Open Books: a Poetry Emporium (108 Cherry St), Saturday, May 9, 5:45-6:45p!
✨Please join us to celebrate new poetry books: Ching-In Chen's SHINY CITY (@airliepress ), Laura Da’'s SEVERALTY (@azpress ), & Jami Macarty's THE LONG NOW CONDITIONS PERMIT (@universitynevadapress )
✨Chen's SHINY CITY examines the "real" and imagined history of Riverside, California's Chinatown, juxtaposed with a speculative shiny city of the global future which reconstructs its own kind of history with beauty that emerges from between the cracks. ✨
✨From powerfully compressed lyrical fragments to pulsing narrative sequences, Da’s SEVERALTY shifts perspectives to examine devastation and healing, transience and seasonality, loss and resurrection. ✨ ✨Macarty’s THE LONG NOW CONDITIONS PERMIT offers an ecofeminist ethic of care as an antidote to extractive capitalism and patriarchal norms. ✨
✨ Open Books is still masking for all public events ✨
#openbookspoetry #seattlepoetry #shinycity #severalty #thelongnowconditionspermit #poetsofinstagram #newpoetrybooks
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1: black text on white background with pink, red and black designs reads: "Open Books: A Poem Emporium | Ching-In Chen | Laura Da' | Jami Macarty | Poetry Reading | May 9, 2026 @ 5:45PM | 108 Cherry St, Seattle, WA | openpoetrybooks.com
2: cover of Ching-In Chen's Shiny City - white text of title and author on black background with white bubbles
3. cover of Laura Da''s Severalty - white & black text of title and author on gray background with a blue, gold, tan amd gray image of bird and plants
4. cover of Jami Macarty's The Long Now Conditions permit - black text of title and "poems" against an image of a tree trunk with branches
A wonderful surprise! Poetry Daily included my 100-word reader's response to E.R. Pulgar's "Locura Azul" in today's What Sparks Poetry--Readers Write Back column! I have kept E.R. Pulgar's poem in my inbox since June 21, 2024 when it first appeared and electrified me blue!
@poetrydaily365@er_pulgar
This week: PDX! May 7!
With Elizabeth Robinson and Valerie Witte!
Passages Bookshop! Doors at 7pm; 7:30 start (no late entry).
We'd love to read fresh poems to you! 📚🎤🌸
@thirst_and_surfeit@shellthief@passages_bookshop
Join Jami Macarty for our May workshop titled “Engine & Echo: Schemes in Poetic Repetition.” All ages/experience welcome!
“Repetition in word and phrase and in idea is the very essence of poetry,” American poet Theodore Roethke writes in “Some Remarks on Rhythm” (1960). Repetition in poetry connects to our deepest human experiences—the heart pumping blood, the seasons tilting Earth.
Repetition is part of daily life. Think of brushing your teeth, walking the dog, welcoming spring’s daffodils. Repetition is part of a writing practice. Think of recurrence and accumulation. Think of returning memories, magic spells, children’s lullabies, and family stories.
Using material/drafts already written in their notebooks/journals, participants in this generative workshop will experiment with the mnemonic and musical qualities, as well as the structural and driving forces of repetition. We will learn some devices of repetition in free verse (anaphora, epiphora, polyptoton, anadiplosis)—the Greek terms are easier to pronounce than you may think!—and explore through writing/revising how repetition builds tension, creates music, and shifts meanings, whether toward the obsessive or the enchanting.
To our maker-space, bring an already-filled notebook, a new notebook, and pens full of ink!
Grab you seat for this exciting workshop now: /4dhdaybh
Celebrating my poem "Monsoon Desert" being given a seat in the caravan of June Road Press's @juneroadpress road trip anthology! Yay! And thank you to Sara Arnold and the other readers who read 625+ poems to make the trip! I'm thrilled to be on the road with June Road!❤️
Saturday eve, following The Anacortes Earth Day - Procession of the Species, featuring butterflies, jellyfish, salmon, orca, frog, flamingo, giraffe, and humans 🦒 🦩 🐸🐋🪼🦋 -- I was so bowled over in delight, I didn't think to take photos of the parading species -- Heidi Seaborn and I were welcomed by the lovely listening hearts of the attentive audience for the Madrona Poetry Series at Pelican Bay Books & Coffeehouse. Here we are reading-in- action. Thank you, Georgia Johnson and Michael Daley for every step you took to support my appearance at Madrona! Thank you, Heidi Seaborn for sharing the podium and your tic tic tic ticking poems!
