SUBLIME, SUBLIMINAL, Rena Priest, Floating Bridge Press, 909 NE 43rd Street, #205, Seattle, Washington, 98105, 2018, 48 pages, $10, paper, www.floatingbridgepress.org. This August I am once again not doing the #SealeyChallenge. I gave some thought to it—reading a poetry book a day for the month of August, then simply posting a picture to Instagram—but…I get […]
Just a head’s up for my Bellingham friends.
My poetry manuscript — The Pear Tree: Elegy for a Farm — has won the 2023 Sally Albiso Poetry Award from MoonPath Press. I’m feeling stunned and honored and — even after a week has gone by — a bit disbelieving. I’ve shared here some of my process in cobbling this book together, but just […]
Lexicon: “the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge” A lexicon can be vast, but it can also be narrow and exact. Horse people have a lexicon. Dock-workers have a lexicon. Waitresses have a lexicon. My first assignment in the poetry class I’m teaching is to list 25 words relating to a subject. […]