One Super Important Question For Chris Weber
Monday, January 26, 2015 13:29 — 0 Comments
When Chris Weber reached out to me about the Seattle Rock Lottery, I knew I’d of it, but really had no idea what it was. He explained that the latest performance is slated for Feb. 7th at The Crocodile as a benefit for The Creative Advantage. The R.L. would also feature, among many other artists waiting to see which band they’d find themselves in, Adra Boo (Fly Moon Royalty) on vocals, Kelton Sears (Kithkin) on bass, Andrew Joslyn (Passenger String Quartet) on violin, Terri Moeller (The Walkabouts) on drums, and Nikolay Grachev (Juliana & PAVA) on the Russian Hurdy-Gurdy. Some of […]
Bug Brother – Kirby Wright
Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:09 — 2 Comments
My big brother wears his orange Terminix shirt with “Barry†stitched in blue on the breast pocket. I don’t understand why he wants to make his living selling fumigation packages and supervising beefy crews pulling tents over roofs. I guess the money’s good. His life is based on the death of bugs and guaranteeing his odorless gases kill everything crawling, squirming, flying, scampering, and scuttling wall to wall and attic to basement. Fearing destruction, owners destroy armies of little things to cope. Barry seems proud being a bug man. He stands tall in the kitchen of our old family home, […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 24
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:42 — 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 Will Sprott, Staxx Brothers and Wes Sp8. Enjoy!
Urban Shadows – Jim Brantingham
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:34 — 1 Comment
Hour by hour the girders play as ribs and reach out and hold together the stone walls and floors. – “Skyscraper,†Carl Sandburg Shadows slide along streets and alleys, Slink slowly up old brick buildings. Each inch traveled along the walks Matches the vertical rise of concrete, Of steel and tall sheets of glass. Sandburg’s skyscraper has soul: The soul of dreams and hopes Poured into each cubic yard of concrete, Fastened into each steel beam. But these are squat soulless slabs That scarcely scrape the sky Yet still leave long black traces Where sunlight once brightened the leaves Lining […]
An Interview With Poet Susan Rich
Monday, January 19, 2015 12:11 — 0 Comments
Susan Rich and Kelli Russell Agodon co-teach poetry workshops for beginners to those with reams of poems coming out the drawers. This Saturday, the two will continue their classes with Demystifying the Manuscript: A Poetry Workshop. I caught up with Susan to talk about the class, her relationship with Kelli and the cruel hand of doubt.Â
What We Were Never Taught – Shaun Scott
Monday, January 19, 2015 9:59 — 1 Comment
If you’re coming from lower Manhattan like I was, there’s no way to the Staten Island storefront that spawned #icantbreathe without taking a ferry.Â
Here And Now: A Night At The Josephine†– Poster Bot
Friday, January 16, 2015 11:29 — 0 Comments
I’ve never had a very good working relationship with reality. I grew up in California. I was a latchkey kid. Rather than using my after-school freedom to bask in the warm Californian sun, my preference was to park in front of the TV and bask in the warmth of its rays. I watched a lot of cartoons and like the rest of my contemporaries I watched a fair share of 80’s teen movies: The Breakfast Club, Revenge Of The Nerds, Pretty In Pink… These films helped shape my imagination and it is an unjust tragedy that by the time I […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 23
Thursday, January 15, 2015 11:06 — 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 The Corespondents, The Spider Ferns and Theoretics. Enjoy!
Quarreler, Vol. 1: David Shields
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 22:38 — 0 Comments
I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, by David Shields and Caleb Powell is fresh off the Knopf presses. It’s a book in the form of one extended and contentious dialogue. Over the course of a weekend at a remote cabin tucked into the Cascade Mountains, Shields and Powell argue Life versus Art, testing the limits of civilized conversation and the boundaries of the self. The Monarch Review had the chance to talk with both Quarrelers individually about the making of both the book, and the adaptation of the book into a film directed by James Franco. This is the […]
Advice For Yourself
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:53 — 1 Comment
I had the opportunity to ask some of Seattle’s most interesting folks this one question: What message or idea would you relate to your former 15 year old self, and what message would you hope to hear today from your 75 year old self? Here are their responses:
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
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 […]
