2013 — The Monarch Review — Page 15
IRREGULAR – Peter Brav
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 13:00 — 0 Comments
It is a great deal of pressure to be a regular. Maybe more than it’s worth.Â
Mary Revisited – R L Swihart
Monday, July 15, 2013 14:36 — 0 Comments
I. Ominous and empty and then glorious and emptyÂ
The Monarch Drinks With Luke Burbank pt. 1
Friday, July 12, 2013 12:56 — 0 Comments
Hi! Below is Part 1 of our Drinks With feature with Luke Burbank, radio and podcast host extraordinaire. Normally, we’d run a more traditional piece, but since Luke and our writer Stephanie Drury are so wonderfully loquacious, we thought we’d run their conversation in two parts (Part 2Â can be read here). Enjoy!Â
Elegy – Abraham Elm
Thursday, July 11, 2013 11:24 — 0 Comments
In those days my city had not yet become a sad imitation of itself. I’d spend the evenings wandering through the park or riding the streetcar, sipping coffee from paper cups and reading books I’d borrowed from the library. If I’d been paid recently I’d buy a bottle of wine and walk into the hills until I found a quiet place to watch the rest of the world. If I’d worked hard that day and written a few pages of honest prose I might stay out late at one of the bars on Broadway. In the morning I’d wake up […]
Mazurkas – Jo Ann Baldinger
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:54 — 3 Comments
My first husband had bones like a Russian ballet star
An Interview with Kate Bergstrom
Monday, July 8, 2013 12:38 — 0 Comments
Kate Bergstrom is Dates With Kate. She runs a web site (featured on the front page of the Seattle PI), a podcast and authored a book. She has gone on over 100 dates over four years in search of – what? She has gone into the world of online dating, that’s clear. She is bold, open and funny. In a way, she does this experimenting for us, her readers and listeners. The Monarch had the chance to chat with Kate about her past three years:Â
The American Storyboard – Shaun Scott
Thursday, July 4, 2013 11:34 — 0 Comments
An American invention, the storyboard appears to us in retrospect as a forceful idea that changed the way films were made and seen forever.
Bone Chill – James Brantingham
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 22:51 — 1 Comment
The bone chill factor    5 below on the chatter scale
Galleries and Fatherhood with Todd Jannausch
Monday, July 1, 2013 21:34 — 0 Comments
Todd Jannausch is a Seattle artist and craftsman with one of the best coifs in the city. He recently put together two detailed projects: “Gallery 206†and “Small Voidsâ€. Gallery 206, a re-appropriated phone booth showing off the work of 206 Seattle artists (206 is the Seattle area code), went up about two years ago in downtown Seattle. Small Voids, a show featuring 100 individual pieces, which he mounted and displayed along the streets of three cities: Portland, Oakland and Seattle, hung earlier this year. The Monarch Review had the chance to chat with Todd about his work:Â
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
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