We are pleased to reveal the covers of our 2017 Floating Bridge Press chapbooks! Our covers were designed by artist Rob Nance for our winning chapbook, Night Watch by Katy E. Ellis, and 2 our finalists, The Meanest Things Pick Clean by Ben Cartwright and Myth of…
(Drum roll please….) Okay Poets, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. But first, whether you submitted or not, we just want to say thank you for your support and interest. We again received more than one hundred submissions from all across Washington State. We feel this year’s submissions were especially strong, start to finish.…
We believe that poetry deserves promotion and increased attention in our community. We want to bring well-written, well-edited poetry to the attention of as many people as possible, including those who cannot afford to buy our books. So, each month we give away multiple copies of a single book on Goodreads. Each title repeats every…
The lovely Kimberly Ann Southwick reviewed 3 award-winning chapbooks (all by women!) over at Ploughshares and Floating Bridge Press’s very own Kate Peterson was included. Read the whole review here. Thank you Kimberly, for this great review! Peterson is at her best when allowing her speaker to muse on a body’s perceived abnormalities in a way…
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…