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Frances McCue and Mary Randlett, November, 2009. Photo credit: Greg Gilbert Book tour dates: Washington: September 19--Port Townsend-- Rose Theater Montana: October 29 -30-- Humanities Montana Book Festival. November 6-7-- Helena Book Festival Massachusetts and Vermont: This Fall or Winter, I'll be reading at the Grolier Bookshop in Cambridge, at Flying Object in Amherst and somewhere in Brattleboro.
Reviews and Interviews: Excerpt on www.Crosscut.com. Listen to NPR's Home Ground Radio interview hosted by Brian Kahn. REVIEW in the Portland Oregonian STORY in the Sunday, May 2 Missoulian, Montana's largest newspaper: Poetry of place. And more in the Missoulian, when Ginny Merriam talks about having the book on her nightstand. Listen to a reading at the Seattle Public Library here. Calendar of Happenings October, 2010: "The Bled," a full-length collection of poems is forthcoming from Factory Hollow Press. (Publication postponed to make it a full length book rather than a chapbook.) June, 2010: On June 10 at noon-- launch party for Common Book at the University of Washington. Print Run: 7500 for all incoming freshmen and interested readers. It's an anthology of poems! I wrote the foreward and was on the committee that chose the poems. March, 2010: Pushcart Prize Nomination! My new book, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs, is out from the University of Washington Press. It has arrived at Elliott Bay. The publisher is now predicting early April for other bookstores. In thirteen essays, I re-visit Pacific Northwest towns that poet Richard Hugo wrote about more than forty years ago. Using Hugo’s poems as a magnifying lens over these places, I map some of the historical and environmental issues that face the towns. February, 2010: I'm on the selection committee for the UW Common Book, the book that all incoming freshmen read. This year, we are choosing a poetry collection of ten poems and publishing it on the UW Bookstore's Espresso Machine. The homespun, the beautiful, the circulated nature of this will be inspiring for students and faculty alike. We hope that lots of people read and write new verse. December, 2009: New catalogue from the University of Washington Press features THE CAR THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE STILL RUNS. October, 2009: Factory Hollow Press commissions a book of my poems, due out in 2010. September, 2009: I resume work as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington’s Undergraduate Honors Program. August, 2009: Cutbank Magazine published “Not Diamonds,” an essay that imagines Denise Levertov in Butte, Montana with Richard Hugo and the Berkeley Pit, a pit of toxic mining waste shining like the sun. July, 2009: I returned to Seattle from a year living in Marrakesh, Morocco where I taught at Cadi Ayyad University and wrote poems and a prose piece that imagines Walt Whitman in Marrakesh.May, 2009: My essay “Dreaming Richard Hugo” (The Georgia Review) won first prize for “Best Profile” at the Magazine Association of the Southeast’s 2009 GAMMA Awards ceremony. |
