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Beasts Among Us – Dani Wilson

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 10:35 — 4 Comments

From the artist: My name is Dani Wilson and I am a queer, poly, Seattle artist. I formerly studied medicine at Bellevue College, but realized art is more the path I want to take. So aside from taking a couple drawing classes in between medical terminology classes, I am self-taught. I’ve been drawing and painting ever since I can remember, but for the past few years I have really been trying to hone my craft by creating beasts in fantastical and dystopian worlds, predominately with watercolor on untreated wood scraps. I currently live in Northgate, working at Capitol Hill Frame […]

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Plums at Night – Natalie Crick

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 12:04 — 0 Comments

The night is plum-dark. Horses hang in the depths of sleep, Haunches gleaming blue-black as Dripping dusky fruit, Skin enticing touch, Misted by the press of my thumb. I want to bite right down To the hard grooved core, Flesh dense as Blood in lungs, Pulse of the heart Throbbing to be licked, Thirst and murmur and desire Rolling the tongue as the Horse’s eyes Turn to their whites in Fright. Wide and open as a cage In the belly of the night, Asking: ‘Do I dare?’

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Two Poems – Jeff Ewing

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:59 — 1 Comment

Reintroducing the Wolf There’s no moon tonight to dress the lawn or drape the low bed, the only light the clock fallen from the nightstand. Outside, the street bucks the sidewalk’s bank, a transformer hums. What stirs an unquiet mind from its preoccupations? The wolf enters panting, muscles tensing under the sheets. A tentative half- snarl culled from base pairs breaks from my throat as I lope through waist-high grass. Birds without number hurtle above me, cragged wind keens from my north, blue as inlaid ice. How sweet the loosed blood, how blinding the heat sweeping from the backs of […]

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The Attic – Matt Dennison

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:52 — 3 Comments

In his workshop my landlord tells me about Poland during the war and those who refused shelter, who turned away as the trains chuffed past night and day and of the soldiers who searched the carpentry shop he and his younger brother had struggled for years to establish— how they slid like snakes into everything they owned until they discovered his best wood, hidden in the attic under rags, and how, laughing, they tossed the boards into the snow, thanked him as they loaded their truck and then torched the building. He set up another shop, without his brother, and […]

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Two Poems – Shannon Connor Winward

Friday, January 13, 2017 12:36 — 0 Comments

Getting Wet The first time I tasted sweet plum wine was like kissing a girl with a candy tongue deep between her satin sheets The first time I kissed a girl was like sliding into a black velvet dress that perfectly mirrored my curves and lengths The first time I wore a black velvet dress was like hearing my mother invoke me (shiver-clear as seven-up and gin in a glass in smoky room) but not by the name I was given The first time I took a name of my own choosing I thought I was deep like the baby […]

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Three Songs To The Head vol. 45: Golden Idols

Sunday, January 8, 2017 14:03 — 0 Comments

Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring three songs by the Seattle band, Golden Idols, from their new record Holy Smokes! which the group will celebrate the release of on Jan. 14. Enjoy!   I’ll Be There: My favorite track off the new record. It’s eerie and magical, like crossing through a waterfall into a secret alcove in the rocks. The lyrics are simple but sharp: “When you want someone in your bed, all […]

The answer isn't poetry, but rather language

- Richard Kenney

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Book Release and Reading Feb. 6

January 6th, 2016

Hello fellow readers, travelers and Monarchians! Our first book, Traveling Light, written by Seattle author, Jim Brantingham, is now for sale! And we will be throwing a release party for it Feb. 6 at 6pm in Ravenna Third Place Books (on the corner of 65th and 20th NE). Jim will be reading from the book and there will be guest readers accompanying him. Space is limited, so we suggest you come early. Books can be bought through this link here or at Ravenna Third Place Books (which just ordered it’s second wave of books). We are super excited for this release and […]