Today Claudia Castro Luna, author of This City and Seattle Civic Poet, has both a poem and a blog post at The Seattle Review of Books about the experience of being an immigrant. Thank you, Claudia, for speaking so boldly and loudly. Check out both her poem and blog post at The Seattle Review of…
Join Seattle Civic Poet and Floating Bridge Press poet Claudia Castro Luna along with Seattle’s Youth Poet Laureate and other writers as they read poems and bring awareness to the injustice that is homelessness. There will also be a short film “US THEM WE” by Michelle de la Vega. Where: City Hall Plaza, Seattle When: January 26th, 7:00…
Over at Drizzle Review Rebecca Valley kindly and beautifully reviewed Kate Peterson’s Grist, our 2016 Chapbook Competition winning chapbook. Check out the full review here. “Though at moments this collection feels fragile, like it is teetering on the edge of collapse, Grist is as much a book about healing as it is about being wounded.…
Join us on January for a quarterly poetry series where local poets read from their work and discuss poetry with the audience at the Fremont Library in Seattle. The evening will feature Sandra Noel, Charles Leggett and Laura W. Allen. When: January 9th, 2016 from 6:30 – 7:45 p.m. Where: Fremont Library 731…
We love getting to see our books out in the world, where they belong. This week we spotted Claudia Castro Luna’s This City at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. Get on over there and catch one in the wild while you can!
The editors of Floating Bridge Press believe poetry engages individuals, enriches communities, and enlivens the arts. We want to make sure poetry reaches as many people as possible, so we’ve made it easier for students and teachers to get our books. Students get 25% off their entire order with the code ‘READUP’ at checkout. Teachers and professors…
It’s Monday, and we know for many of you it has been a long week already. We are an independent publisher of poetry and sometimes (at least for this writer/editor) we have doubts about what poetry can do. But then we read your submissions, we read poets old and new. We think of poets like…
With the release of our newest chapbooks (Grist, The Ark and The Bear, and Land of Lists) comes the new issue of Pontoon Poetry. Every Tuesday and Thursday we will release new poems from Issue 12. All the poems were selected from manuscripts submitted to our annual chapbook competition. Check out Issue 12 here. And…
I put some trauma into words, ground them up and worked them into my version of art. That’s what it’s all about for me. This year’s chapbook competition winner Kate Peterson has an interview up at Speaking of Marvels. It’s the perfect read while you wait to get your very own copy of her beautiful…
Paul Constant over at The Seattle Review of Books has reviewed This City by Claudia Castro Luna. He notes that Luna “her poetry fights for the soul of this city with every single line” and we have to agree. Go read the whole review here. Poetry reacts in interesting ways when abutted against the deeply…