2013 — The Monarch Review — Page 19
Paper Roses – Jim Plath
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:51 — 2 Comments
In late spring, when I was ten years old, my father received orders to return to sea. In the fall of the previous year, my mother had taken a job as a cook in a nursing home to supplement the Navy’s meager pay and when Memorial Day came, she could find nobody to stay with me on my day-off from school. I, like most children at that age, lived in an idyllic naiveté, wherein I believed that no more than some secret combination of promises and pleas stood between my parents and capitulation. True to that form, I made my […]
The Monarch Chats With Three Seattle Poets
Monday, April 29, 2013 16:42 — 0 Comments
Elizabeth Colen, Rich Smith and Katie Ogle are Seattle poets. Distinguished in the field already, the three have books published and forthcoming. They also hold teaching positions, writer-in-residences and regularly attend city poetry readings. The Monarch Review chatted with these three about all that and more (including gin!).Â
Rodriguez Live at The Neptune
Friday, April 26, 2013 16:24 — 2 Comments
Rodriguez, hours before getting on stage to perform Thursday, walked slowly across the floor of the Neptune Theater to applause. The man was only being led, presumably, to the green room, or to some other part of the theater, but the people at the Neptune applauded his very existence, the very fact that he was here in Seattle to perform.
Three Songs To The Head – Vol. 3
Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:57 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to our series, Three Songs To The Head, where we feature three songs that we love, three songs that are stuck in our dome, three songs we simply feel must be shared with you! This time we’re featuring work by COHO Mountain Stringticklers, Sebastian and the Deep Blue and In Cahoots. Songs that will move you in their own separate ways, songs that are perfect for a sunny day! Enjoy!
City Lighthouse 4 – John Osebold
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 13:18 — 0 Comments
NOT LYDIA is not named Lydia. She sits on a park bench one day and sees a mountain hovering over a parking lot. Such a thing! Her brain alights trying to figure it out but instead a piano is on fire underground. She can’t stop crying it’s so beautiful. A single lightbulb flickers on and a voiceover describes things you’re not seeing. A dead man sits with his back turned to us. We realize we’re outside. It’s night and we can’t speak. We just watch the dead man and wonder what his face is. NOT LYDIA spends an entire montage […]
Confabulation, Day 4 – John Englehardt
Monday, April 22, 2013 14:56 — 0 Comments
I remember Emily coming back from the family service center at Fort Benning with a purse full of brochures. One was called “The Challenges of Deployment,†written by Dr. Bruce Bell, who warned me in the first sentence that saying goodbye to my wife wasn’t going to be as romantic as I imagined. “The list of opportunities for crushed hopes is a long one,†he wrote. I remember feeling upset that the army would assume romance is the troll of my imagination, not fear.
Six Questions For Matthew Dickman
Thursday, April 18, 2013 10:54 — 0 Comments
Matthew Dickman is the poetry editor of Tin House Magazine. He also authored two chapbooks, Amigos and Something about a Black Scarf, and two full-length poetry collections. His first book, All-American Poem, won the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, published by American Poetry Review. He spoke with us in March. –Jake Uitti, The Monarch Review 1) You said in an interview for Willow Springs with Tim Greenup, “I think empathy is one of the greatest things besides love.†How do you think you arrived at this resolution? Maybe we need empathy to engage in love. […]
Asthma – Ahsan Butt
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:33 — 2 Comments
Turbulence used to terrify me. Before I developed the ability, turbulence felt like God’s judgment finally deciding on us. I hated planes. I used to pray so desperately.
Like Four Peeps In A Pod
Monday, April 15, 2013 11:19 — 0 Comments
Aaron Mason (The Grapes of Rad), Aaron Roden (Air-raid.net) and Stephanie Drury (Dongtini) are podcast hosts based in Seattle, Washington. With regular episodes and thousands of followers, these three, via their own respective shows, bring conversation, interviews, jokes, music and “bombs for your earholes†to listeners all over the country. Below is a conversation I conducted with the hosts about their process, (angry) fan mail and dongs. Enjoy!Â
Black Bags – Peter Brav
Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:00 — 0 Comments
The last time Hank remembered this much religious fervor in the neighborhood was the day Robin Green came home from Camp Pakatawa in the Catskills, declaring that she had talked to God at the bottom of the lake that separated boy hands from girl underwear. They were all 15 back then and God was delivering daily excuses for doubt in black bags with return addresses in Southeast Asia. There seemed no reason though to doubt Robin, one of the best students Red Oak Middle School had ever seen. She excelled at Math and Social Studies and had even made a […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
