June 3, 2017 from 3:00-5:00 pm
Anchor Pub
1001 Hewitt Avenue
Everett WA 98201

Name: Daniel Blees

Role at Red Bird: Intern

Name: Elissa Cottle

Role at Red Bird: Poetry Editor

June 7 from 7:00-9:00 pm
Honey at GingerHop 
205 E Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis MN 55414

Wednesdays, June 7-August 2, 2017 (no class July 19), 6:30-8:30 pm: 2 SPOTS LEFT--REGISTER SOON!
 
Genre Benders: Paula Cisewski runs this very small private workshop for intermediate to advanced writers who are interested in blurred genres or in crossing genre (from poetry to prose or vice versa).

                        For Derek Walcott, 23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017

You have to be half awake
Precarious as vernaculars
Of light  ...

a St. Sabastian of darts and terror, escaping
the slaughterhouse for the street, its gauntlet
of slow moving cars, lights flashing.

He flees past green lawns where he cannot
stop, chased by those determined to finish
the job  ...

I feel the owls gathering with the dark,
and holy words beyond translation
coming from the synagogue next door
through a thicket of white oleander.  ...

Once, I tried to make a poem into a gun, wanted to stun the world

For a moment, wanted to feel the powerful, cold heaviness of it in my own hand –

But of course, you know, it refused.  ...

Lara Holmes is not a drunk.  She seriously objects to labels which reduce individuals to past participles. Lara would hardly be capable of saying “past participles” if she were drunk – ‘a drunk’. She never drinks on week nights- not since last week’s scare on the bypass; the blue lights jerking her out of early morning autopilot ...