“McCue’s poems call the gone world back into being… embracing our violent erasures, until, black and blanked, the few survivity words take root, forming the seeds of a new life, the sound of a new music.”
Charles D’Ambrosio, author of Loitering
Exploring the torque between temperament and terrain in the PNW and beyond.
In poems, I love the lavishly articulated moment, the barreling yawp that slaps boats upon the sea or opens a forgotten door into a wide, sunny field. In life, I love the glory of the inarticulated moment. I love the space that exists before there are words to put to it — the open dalliance of the abstract, right while you are living in it: the great “um.”
Press
On the Trail of the Poet: Seattle Writer Frances McCue on Her Quest for Richard Hugo—and Beyond (History News Network)
Best books of 2011: A list of lists (The Seattle Times)
Hugo House Documentary honors Seattle’s historical literary space (King 5)
THE CAR THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE STILL RUNS: REVISITING THE NORTHWEST TOWNS OF RICHARD HUGO
Stop me from Cutting Down Trees
Poetry vs. programming: Wandering the city, a writer finds the intersection of literature and code (geekwire)
Frances McCue reflects on poetry, the Hugo House, and Seattle’s CHOP
What I’m Thinking About
Frances McCue with Cary Moon: The Importance of Artistic Voices in Urban Planning
Hugo House Documentary honors Seattle’s historical literary space
- Frances McCue with Cary Moon: The Importance of Artistic Voices in Urban Planning
- Hugo House Documentary honors Seattle’s historical literary space
- School’s Not Out For SummerIn the midst of a city roiling in conflict and an epidemic, a university tries to keep going. I’ve started teaching a course called “Where Are We Living Now?” Together, my students and I are reading fiction, poetry and nonfiction about migration as we connect from different parts of the world. What do we all …
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