Kay Ryan at the Hugo House
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 20:53 — 0 Comments
“Rhyme,†said the poet, Kay Ryan, wearing a red scarf and a dark blazer, speaking to a packed audience at Seattle’s Hugo House, “is incredibly powerful – dangerously powerful.â€Â
The Three Einsteins!†– Sarah Galvin
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 10:08 — 0 Comments
Sarah Galvin, who just happens to grace the cover of this month’s City Arts Magazine, has a new book of poems out, called The Three Einsteins. It has received praise from some of the Monarch’s favorite writers, including Kary Wayson, who says the book has “faultless logic”, and Cody Walker, who says, “I want to spend my entire paycheck buying pens and paper and espresso shots for Sarah Galvin—so that she continues to write, and write, and write some more.”
Angry in Seattle – Ijeoma Oluo
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 10:54 — 10 Comments
Seattle, we need to talk.
We Don’t Choose the Days – Ahsan Butt
Monday, October 6, 2014 10:09 — 1 Comment
I grew up in a labyrinth.
On Pacific Aggression – Elizabeth Colen
Monday, October 6, 2014 10:03 — 0 Comments
PACIFIC AGGRESSION is first and foremost a smart film, a well-researched film that engages articulately both metaphorically and literally with the history of place and history of cultural violence, the history of how people just going about their lives contribute to and move these aggressions forward. Filmmaker Shaun Scott shows our digital age of loneliness not as something new, but as something we have always been working (against ourselves) towards. And he shows all of this through the communicationally challenged, yet budding relationship between main characters Frank Ulysses Waters (played by Trevor Marston) and Meryl Applegate (played by Libby Matthews, […]
The Paradox of the Blues – Erin Ashley
Thursday, October 2, 2014 16:25 — 0 Comments
In another life I was a singer Spent half my days in a rocking chair Spitting out the teeth of unchurched soldiers I’d had for dinner the night before
Prom Queen’s Midnight Veil
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 11:28 — 0 Comments
The cinematic, candy-coated, noir-hearted Prom Queen allures like a pink-blue-purple smoke stream – one of those cartoon smokes, even – with a hand on the end, index finger beckoning you toward the magic lamp, where, you’ll eventually find, the secret of your own curiosity: that love is mixed with poison and joy with a fall from grace.Â
Innocuous – Isaac Blum
Monday, September 29, 2014 9:40 — 3 Comments
Now, I enjoy bananas foster. If you say to me, “Derek, do you enjoy bananas foster?†I say, “Yes, I do enjoy bananas foster.†And I might be curious as to whether or not you enjoy bananas foster, in which case I would ask you, “Do you like bananas foster?†And then you would, presumably, offer an opinion on bananas foster.
Paper Cuts: Zines with Craven Rock vol. 2
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 11:24 — 1 Comment
“Why don’t you write a zine about it?†is a common dig zine writer’s will get from the punks, a subculture that seems to continually widen an embarrassed distance from it’s intellectual and socially conscious roots. You don’t have to embed yourself too deeply in to notice the majority of it becoming banal, collapsing under the weight of conformity, close-mindedness and nostalgia. For a scene so quick to label folks who aren’t punks as “normiesâ€, it strikes me funny so many punks are so hung-up on maintaining a narrow status quo of what punk rock is. I’m not sure how […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 16
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 11:23 — 1 Comment
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 Nate Omdal & Spekulation, Theoretics ft. Shelton Harris, and Goodbye Heart. Enjoy!Â
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 […]
