Alex Vigue’s 2017 chapbook, The Myth of Man, was caught hanging around with Janus, the two-faced god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. They were comparing facial hair. Find your copy of this sexy book in our shop (& don’t forget, this month you get 25% off your order with code RESOLUTION…
Get your copy of A Fort Made of Doors by Casey Fuller (Winner of the 2011 Floating Bridge Chapbook Award) in our shop!
AN EVENING OF POETRY At Fremont Library Monday, January 8, 2018, 6:30 – 7:45pm Join us for a quarterly poetry series where local poets read from their work and discuss poetry with the audience. This evening’s featured readers are: Claudia Castro Luna, Catherine Bull, & Scott Ferry. Claudia Castro Luna served as Seattle’s Civic Poet from 2015…
Looking for a New Year’s Resolution you can stick to? How about: Read more poetry? That’s easy and we are here to help make it easier! For the entire month of January get 25% OFF your entire order by using code ‘RESOLUTION’. Visit the shop to get started on your New Year’s Resolution! …
We have a lot of new and exciting things to share with you this year! Stay tuned and follow along with us here (and Twitter and Facebook). And make sure to keep an eye on Pontoon Poetry — new poems are coming your way soon! To start of the New Year, here is a poem…
Please join some amazing poets to celebrate the launch of a very special collection of poems, Counting Time Like People Count Stars, at 4:00 pm on December 16 at St. Peter’s Episcopal Parish (1610 South King St. Seattle, WA 98144). Guests include Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall, Incoming State Poet Laureate (& Floating Bridge Press author!) Claudia Castro…
He is the quince and she is the sparrow trapped in his snarl, his heart of thorns, jangled twigs. No easy way out.” Read the entirety of “Entanglement” by T. Clear here.
Dear Floating Friends, Some of you know me, others may not. Either way, please allow me to introduce myself. Hi, my name is Michael Schmeltzer. I am a reader, author, editor, and as of a few short weeks ago, the newly appointed President of Floating Bridge Press. It’s a role I take on with joy,…
This past Sunday we had the honor of hosting our release reading at Elliott Bay Book Company. We loved getting to see so many people from the community come out to support our amazing poets! New Floating Bridge Press President, Michael Schmeltzer, (more on that soon) got things started. …
Date: Monday October 9, 2017 Location: Fremont Branch of the Seattle Public Library (731 North 35th Street, Seattle, WA 98103). Time: 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM Readers: Liz Vignali & Kami Westhoff, Thomas Walton, Armin Tolentino Thomas Walton‘s work has appeared in several journals both online and off, including ZYZZYVA, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, The Chaos…