Name: Courtney Yokes

Role at Red Bird: Publishing Intern

Name: Rebecca Higgins

Role at Red Bird: Publishing Intern

The body, slight and infinite, lies prone
on steel, too vivid relic of what came
and went, and will not come to life again--
The name it wore. The blood that stirred the bones. ...

Fifteen years ago, when old Irv
was still hale, he told me
when we come to see him a second time ...

I was driving along the freeway today
listening to MPR’s debate
on the threat of ISIS, terrorists enlisting
even from this state of Minnesota nice

when a Dodge Caravan speeding past
rolled down its window
and out soared a single shoe.  ...
 

My new Chemex coffee maker is built like Sylvia Plath: all cinched
waist, broad shouldered and hipped. Steeps the dark,

the bitter. I invited her in to try a cup, black but sweet: I found
sugar cubes. I invited her using my Ouija board. I hoped she wouldn’t hear  ...
 

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