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…
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…
First, we are pleased to announce that This City is now available for purchase! Check out our shop to get your copy! Next, we are excited to share with you that Claudia Castro Luna, Seattle’s civic poet and author of This City, has some readings coming up throughout Seattle. We would love to see you there!…
Asi This is the city that saw the raw mass of me, the quick and slow of me, the I’m afraid and I can’t of me, the it’s beyond me side of me. This is the place that showed me I fit. I take space. This city let me, let me, be. My hair really…
Floating Bridge Press is pleased to announce the results of its 2016 Washington State Chapbook Competition. This year’s winner is Kate Peterson, from Spokane, for her chapbook Grist. Kate earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University in Spokane, where she now works as an adjunct professor. Her poetry and prose have been published in Glassworks, The…