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!
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…
October is an exciting month for Floating Bridge Press. We have 3 new chapbooks coming out to join the recently published This City. Here is where you can catch our poetry in October: This Thursday, October 6th Claudia Castro Luna will be reading for her book launch at The Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle at…
Drumroll please …. here is the cover for Kate Peterson’s chapbook, Grist. Grist won our chapbook competition this year and the poems inside are just as beautiful as the cover. Check out the covers for The Ark and The Bear and Land of Lists too. You don’t want to miss out on these chapbooks, so stay…
Hot out of the designer’s hand, here is the cover for Lydia Swartz’s Land of Lists. Stay tuned to get your copy very soon. Land of Lists was a finalist in our chapbook competition this year and we can’t wait for you to read it! You’d be sad if you missed any of our readings,…
We are so excited to show you the newly finished cover for Arlene Naganawa’s soon-to-be-released chapbook, The Ark and The Bear. The Ark and The Bear was a finalist in our chapbook competition this year (find out more about the competition here). Thanks to our incredible designer, Rob Nance, for the beautiful artwork. Check out…