2015 — The Monarch Review — Page 3
At the Allegro – Alex Gallo-Brown
Monday, November 2, 2015 11:18 — 0 Comments
On the eighth anniversary of my father’s death, I come to the Allegro for coffee, the last, best hope for remembering my father in the cafés and restaurants of this city. I have never had much love for the Allegro. But I do have love for a memory. I was twenty-one then, living in an apartment off the Ave. when one morning I met my father for coffee. Six weeks later, I would leave Seattle for college and never see him alive again. But on the morning that I remember it is a normal day in Seattle circa 2007 and we are sitting together in […]
Two Poems – Benjamin David Scott
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 16:56 — 0 Comments
Naturally icehouse, parking-lot, icebox he gave me a thumbs up from the front of the classroom chewing cud and corn and wheat in the maize at Chickory Hills, Oklahoma I played a game about where I’d like to die I told myself anywhere but Michigan I have a cut on my lip and its blood stained my blouse and this toothache is keeping me up Papergirl She told me about when she was a child, and was evicted from her home. It must have been mid-November. All of her belongings were strung in the front yard, and under […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 35 + 36
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 11:55 — 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 two installments of the same gimmick – so prepare yourself for tunes from Lemolo, La Luz, Spekulation + Jesse Dangerously, Susy Sun, Sendai Era and Grace Love. Enjoy! –Jake Uitti The music of Lemolo is the wind through the trees, their branches. The sort of wind on which owl wings fly. Lead singer, Meagan Grandall, is a wound up power house who delivers her strength in […]
November: Hip-Hop History Month
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 9:42 — 0 Comments
Did you know that November is recognized by many as National Hip-Hop History month? Did you also know that on November 1st at The Crocodile there will be a huge kick-off event celebrating Seattle’s rich history of rap music, B-boy and B-girl dance crews, DJ’s and street art? Well, now you know! “It is a hip-hop old school reunion with an incredible roster of special guests who were essential to hip-hop’s inception here in Seattle,†says 206 Zulu founder and rapper King Khazm. Founded in Seattle in 2004, 206 Zulu is a non-profit community organization that uses hip-hop culture and art […]
Three Poems – Hannah Jove
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:51 — 0 Comments
Riddled You bring home a carpeted cat tower even though we don’t have any pets. It stands by the window and smells faintly of potpourri. After a few weeks I stop asking about it and new acquaintances are too polite to question it as if it’s a vacant crib and not something you found on a curb. Your love turns into inaccessible stairwells in a building that the city knocks down. I try to pull you back into the hemisphere of our story where we were always wet and forgiving and dizzy but you can’t look me in the eyes […]
Three Poems – Johnny Horton
Monday, October 5, 2015 11:42 — 0 Comments
Lovebirds What we declare often sounds bizarre. Cowbirds sing titi, titi, titi. European starlings laugh out loud. As mother of Imperial Rome, Livia kept nightingales caged. Captivity inspires beautiful songs. The New Zealand kakapo digs an amphitheater in the hills, transmits beat-boxing for as far as four miles. Most passionate singers will not fly off. Elvis gurgled like a meadowlark, shook his pelvis for the chicks. Certain chickens hatch without a cock. Let’s talk turkey: Great tits eat bats. We make cocktail hour happy. Spread the word by tweet. My turtle dove knows the way home by heart. […]
I called Myself SandwichEnthusiast – Steven Barker
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 9:14 — 0 Comments
The only dating website I paid for was Zooks. During my free trial I was bombarded with messages stating that woman were trying to chat with me, and the only way to view these messages and respond was by inputting my credit card information. I determined $29.99 for a month of membership was a reasonable price to satisfy my curiosity. As soon as I became a paying customer I saw that six out of the eight women who’d requested a chat had cancelled their accounts, but I managed to start a dialog with 28-year-old Russian who liked Hitchcock movies. We […]
In The Midst Of Monsters: An Interview With Nick Gucker
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 9:08 — 0 Comments
Nick Gucker is an illustrator, graphic designer and lifelong fan of horror and science-fiction. He’s known professionally as Nick The Hat and though this term of endearment is in no way related to the many hats he’s worn during an exciting and prolific career, he is a man of many talents, not the least of which is his appreciation for the bizarre. He’s the caretaker of his own night-gallery, a menagerie of taxidermied, canned and cured critters. He’s collected morbid masks from exotic kingdoms as far east as Bali and a bestiary of yokai monsters from the land of the […]
Three Songs from Jimmy Pitts
Monday, September 21, 2015 12:32 — 0 Comments
I’ve known Jimmy for a number of years now, both as a musician and bartender at Cafe Racer. He and I both live and work in the Ravenna/Roosevelt district and we both jog around the neighborhood trying to offset the not-so-healthy things we do with some healthy habits. Jimmy’s aesthetic as a musician, I’ve come to know, is DIY and his sensibilities for composition are varied, playful and strong. Recently, he sent some tunes to The Monarch and we chose three to feature here. So, without further ado, here are three songs from Jimmy Pitts for your enjoyment! Demo Club ’15 by […]
A Night Of Blight: Psychic Warfare At The Mercury
Thursday, September 17, 2015 11:08 — 0 Comments
I don’t think Jake, The Monarch’s Editor and Chief, had any idea what he was getting into when he accepted Poster Bot’s first article. The Monarch takes great pride in providing opportunities to new (and often eccentric) authors, but nobody expected this author would be a real-life counterpart to the debauched Gonzo Journalist he writes himself as. Poster Bot does good work, but he’s not easy to work with, so I was brought in as a special Gonzo Editor to share the burden. Jake chose me because I’m physically intimidating, or as Poster Bot describes me “A 300 pound graduate […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
