FBP Events Saturday, March 9th, Bellevue Community College, Book Fair Saturday, March 30th, Portland AWP and NW Micropress Fair Author News Holly Hughes’ chapbook, Passings, the first edition from Expedition Press sold out last year, but Wandering Aengus Press will be reprinting it and it’s due out in March, in time for AWP. AWP Portland…
“This afternoon, in what has become a fall tradition for us, we help celebrate new work published by Floating Bridge Press. Poet and prose writer Natasha Kochicheril Moni will read from A Nation (Imagined), the winner of this year’s Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. Her previous books include The Cardiologist’s Daughter. Rena Priest, whose first book, Patriarchy Blues,…
Congratulations to Floating Bridge Press author Claudia Castro Luna who recently took over as Washington State Poet Laureate. We are over the moon for Claudia and the State of Washington! We can’t wait to see the waves she makes in her new role bringing poetry to every valley and seaside town of our state. Get…
This past Sunday we had the honor of hosting our release reading at Elliott Bay Book Company. We loved getting to see so many people from the community come out to support our amazing poets! New Floating Bridge Press President, Michael Schmeltzer, (more on that soon) got things started. …
Date: Monday October 9, 2017 Location: Fremont Branch of the Seattle Public Library (731 North 35th Street, Seattle, WA 98103). Time: 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM Readers: Liz Vignali & Kami Westhoff, Thomas Walton, Armin Tolentino Thomas Walton‘s work has appeared in several journals both online and off, including ZYZZYVA, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, The Chaos…
Our very own Claudia Castro Luna talks about her poetic grid, developed during her tenure as Seattle Civic Poet. We are so proud to know Claudia and grateful for all she has done in our community. We can’t wait to see what she does next! After you watch her segment on PBS Newshour, check out…
Join us Monday July 10th from 6:30-7:45 PM at the Fremont Branch of the Seattle Library for a poetry reading! We are excited to feature Floating Bridge Press & Pontoon Poets: Lydia Swartz, afrose fatima ahmed, and Keith Moul. We will see you at the Fremont Library: 731 North 35th Street…
(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.…
Today Claudia Castro Luna, author of This City and Seattle Civic Poet, has both a poem and a blog post at The Seattle Review of Books about the experience of being an immigrant. Thank you, Claudia, for speaking so boldly and loudly. Check out both her poem and blog post at The Seattle Review of…
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…