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Frances McCue and Mary Randlett, November, 2009. Photo credit: Greg Gilbert Book tour dates: Seattle: March 31-- Richard Hugo House. 7.30 pm. April 4th-- Seattle Public Library. 2 pm. Montana: May 3-- Choteau Public Library. Mid-day. May 7th-- Fact and Fiction. Evening. Missoula. March, 2010: My new book, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs, is due out from the University of Washington Press on the 15th. But, the publisher is now predicting early April for 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. |
