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
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
Starvation – Henry F. Tonn
Monday, July 1, 2013 11:08 — 0 Comments
My grandmother moved to the United States from Poland in 1900. She was the new bride of a German man who had moved into her small village thirty miles outside of Krakow, wooed her, and took her away. I later asked why she left her village and relocated to the New World with this relatively unknown man and she replied, “Well, he just had what it took.†My grandmother was never one to analyze things.
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals w/ Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
Thursday, June 27, 2013 21:12 — 0 Comments
I knew last Friday, when I walked around the corner onto 2nd Avenue and saw the stretch limo in front of The Moore, that it wasn’t going to be a typical laid-back Seattle night. I photograph live music all around town, but I lived in Tennessee long enough to recognize when Nashville’s in the air. I was sure that Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real would put on a magnificent show… I’ve seen them 3 times in the past 10 months! Always with a slight twang, devilish good looks and amazing guitar skills, Lukas seems to please every crowd, […]
The Mixtape With Sean De Tore
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:34 — 0 Comments
Sean De Tore is Jesus!!! Now that I have your attention, Sean De Tore is not Jesus, but he is a shepherd of sorts these days, hosting a podcast called the mixtape, in which Sean guides listeners through the jungle of local Seattle bands with interviews and in-studio performances, along with an occasional on-air game of Battleship. His interviews are informed and hilarious, the bands are always great, and Sean’s shining personality makes the show a spotlight for anyone looking for something fresh. Turning a new chapter perhaps, Sean is now taking his show from the studio and out into […]
Babies or Books – J. Oscar Franzen
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 11:58 — 0 Comments
The first kid would cost me
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- 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 […]
