2014 — The Monarch Review — Page 7
National Coming Out Day 2014
Thursday, October 9, 2014 10:50 — 0 Comments
October 11th is National Coming Out Day. Since learning about this over a year ago, I’ve had it in my mind to reach out to some of the most talented and interesting publically ‘out’ folks I know in Seattle. Below are the responses – from some of my favorite people in this city – to the question: What does National Coming Out Day/coming out, in general, mean to you?
Monarch Fundraiser Conversation!
Thursday, October 9, 2014 10:45 — 0 Comments
The Monarch Review is throwing its second-ever fundraiser on Oct. 18th from 6pm-11pm at Café Racer. Reading will be comedian Brett Hamil, Poetry Northwest’s Matt Kelsey, poet Doug Nufer and Juggalo aficionado Craven Rock. Performing will be JMASS and The Great UM. Below is a conversation with all the participants for the event in which we talk about Café Racer, inspiration, family, being underfunded and much more!
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, […]
Monarch Podcast #11 – On The Road!
Friday, October 3, 2014 9:53 — 0 Comments
Have a listen while Seattle rockers Tim DiJulio, Star Anna and Christina Cramer tell us stories of being on the road with the band. From moments with Kiss to playing to three people in a bar to much more! Rawk on!
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
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
