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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
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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
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Wordsmiths and spiritualists alike are invited to attend the poetry workshop: Illumination and the Literary Imagination, presented by Urban Grace and the Tacoma Art Museum Thursday, July 24. This writing workshop takes place at the Tacoma Art Museum and is free of charge. The only cost to participants is admission
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Wordsmiths and spiritualists alike are invited to attend the poetry workshop: Illumination and the Literary Imagination, presented by Urban Grace and the Tacoma Art Museum Thursday, July 24. This writing workshop takes place at the Tacoma Art Museum and is free of charge. The only cost to participants is admission
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Nicki Saluba and Kelsey Smith are putting zines in check. Literally. Both women are library employees with a bit of an indie twist. These admitted zinesters made it their personal mission this year to uproot underground publications and bring them to light by starting a cataloged zine collection at the
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Nicki Saluba and Kelsey Smith are putting zines in check. Literally. Both women are library employees with a bit of an indie twist. These admitted zinesters made it their personal mission this year to uproot underground publications and bring them to light by starting a cataloged zine collection at the
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If you ask Jay Bates, a local high school English teacher, Harry Potter doesn’t need any more publicity. Neither does J. K. Rowling, for that matter. “It worries me when I see students reading the same works by writers sold by the millions out of big-box bookstore chains,” says Bates. In
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If you ask Jay Bates, a local high school English teacher, Harry Potter doesn’t need any more publicity. Neither does J. K. Rowling, for that matter. “It worries me when I see students reading the same works by writers sold by the millions out of big-box bookstore chains,” says Bates. In
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If good people are the heart of Tacoma, then great poetry is our city’s soul. Join the Tacoma community in welcoming newly appointed Poet Laureate of Tacoma, William Kupinse, at the Soul of the City Poetry Series, presented by Urban Grace Church. The Soul of the City Poetry Series will
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If good people are the heart of Tacoma, then great poetry is our city’s soul. Join the Tacoma community in welcoming newly appointed Poet Laureate of Tacoma, William Kupinse, at the Soul of the City Poetry Series, presented by Urban Grace Church. The Soul of the City Poetry Series will
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I have a guy in Puyallup. Been seeing him for about five years. But our once-fabulous relationship is on the fritz. Or should I say frizz? What used to sizzle between us has fizzled out. Faded like an overdue dye job. He never has time for me anymore. He never
