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Each April brings a shower of poetry to the South Puget Sound. Inaugurated as National Poetry Month by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, the entire month is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating poets, poetry, libraries, bookstores, and the literary arts community across the nation. The South Sound has its
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Not as much a romantic as she is a realist, there's a palpable pragmatism to Tacoma's new poet laureate, Josie Emmons Turner.If you expect the usual june-moon-spoon doggerel from this poet, you won't find it. There are no cute, rhyming monosyllabics in her writing. Emmons Turner takes on tough topics
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Not as much a romantic as she is a realist, there's a palpable pragmatism to Tacoma's new poet laureate, Josie Emmons Turner. If you expect the usual june-moon-spoon doggerel from this poet, you won't find it. There are no cute, rhyming monosyllabics in her writing. Emmons Turner takes on tough topics
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For Tacoma designers Diane Hansen and Lesli Jacobs-McHugh hope literally floats. They will launch bellaballs — their new line of hand-blown glass art — and host an open house at their bellaballs studio in Tacoma Saturday, Jan. 17 from 5-8 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Each
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For Tacoma designers Diane Hansen and Lesli Jacobs-McHugh hope literally floats. They will launch bellaballs — their new line of hand-blown glass art — and host an open house at their bellaballs studio in Tacoma Saturday, Jan. 17 from 5-8 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Each
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Tacoma’s spoken word group, Speak Your Soul, continues its regular second Friday happenings with a performance poetry reading with an open mic for all poets and poetry styles Dec. 12 at Urban Grace. “There’s something very powerful in the audio and live energy of spoken word. Everyone should experience it,” says
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Tacoma’s spoken word group, Speak Your Soul, continues its regular second Friday happenings with a performance poetry reading with an open mic for all poets and poetry styles Dec. 12 at Urban Grace. “There’s something very powerful in the audio and live energy of spoken word. Everyone should experience it,” says
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If you’re scaring up something to do Saturday, Oct. 25, local dark fiction author B.L. Morgan will be signing books at Borders on 38th Street. From noon to 6 p.m. the creepy creator of the John Dark book series will be autographing his latest novels, Blood for the Masses and Blood
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If you’re scaring up something to do Saturday, Oct. 25, local dark fiction author B.L. Morgan will be signing books at Borders on 38th Street. From noon to 6 p.m. the creepy creator of the John Dark book series will be autographing his latest novels, Blood for the Masses and Blood
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One of America’s most dynamic younger poets, Cate Marvin, will be reading her work at Pacific Lutheran University Thursday, Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. The author of two acclaimed books of poetry, World’s Tallest Disaster and Fragment of the Head of the Queen, will also be sharing her personal writer’s
