The Monarch Drinks With Luke Burbank pt. 2
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:08 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome to Part 2 of our Drinks With feature with radio and podcast host Luke Burbank! If you missed Part 1, here it is. Enjoy!
The Monarch Drinks With Luke Burbank pt. 1
Friday, July 12, 2013 12:56 — 0 Comments
Hi! Below is Part 1 of our Drinks With feature with Luke Burbank, radio and podcast host extraordinaire. Normally, we’d run a more traditional piece, but since Luke and our writer Stephanie Drury are so wonderfully loquacious, we thought we’d run their conversation in two parts (Part 2Â can be read here). Enjoy!Â
An Interview with Kate Bergstrom
Monday, July 8, 2013 12:38 — 0 Comments
Kate Bergstrom is Dates With Kate. She runs a web site (featured on the front page of the Seattle PI), a podcast and authored a book. She has gone on over 100 dates over four years in search of – what? She has gone into the world of online dating, that’s clear. She is bold, open and funny. In a way, she does this experimenting for us, her readers and listeners. The Monarch had the chance to chat with Kate about her past three years:Â
The Monarch Drinks With Dawn Trudeau
Thursday, June 27, 2013 9:57 — 1 Comment
I was late. Dawn Trudeau, co-owner of the Seattle WNBA basketball team, The Storm, was punctual. A businesswoman, self-made and supremely successful, of course she was on time. You don’t move from assembly line in Michigan to owner of a professional sports team by being sloppy. She was gracious, not batting an eyelash at my arrival to Queen Anne’s Obasan nearly 10 minutes late of 6:30PM.
The Monarch Drinks With Marco Collins
Monday, May 27, 2013 14:55 — 2 Comments
Okay, so we just drank water. Well, I was finishing off an iced latte from a coffee place up the street. It was early. We met around 11am at Obasan, a quaint Japanese place in Queen Anne that has, coincidentally, my new favorite noodle dish: Yakisoba with tofu and no mushrooms. Marco Collins, the former Program Director for The End and expert with chopsticks, ordered the tuna rolls and teriyaki chicken.
An Interview With Catherine Smyka, Founder Of T(OUR) Magazine
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:57 — 0 Comments
Catherine Smyka is a Seattle writer and founder of the quarterly literary journal T(OUR) magazine, which focuses on LGBTQ stories and artwork. She also works for The Stranger and performs non-fiction narratives with The Moth and Fresh Ground Stories. She and her staff of 10 produce the quarterly journal, and keep a literary blog. Plans for a community center in Capitol Hill, a storytelling podcast and a reading series are in the works, as well. The Monarch Review chatted with Catherine about T(OUR)’s history and Smyka’s relationship to it.Â
The Monarch Chats With Three Seattle Poets
Monday, April 29, 2013 16:42 — 0 Comments
Elizabeth Colen, Rich Smith and Katie Ogle are Seattle poets. Distinguished in the field already, the three have books published and forthcoming. They also hold teaching positions, writer-in-residences and regularly attend city poetry readings. The Monarch Review chatted with these three about all that and more (including gin!).Â
Six Questions For Matthew Dickman
Thursday, April 18, 2013 10:54 — 0 Comments
Matthew Dickman is the poetry editor of Tin House Magazine. He also authored two chapbooks, Amigos and Something about a Black Scarf, and two full-length poetry collections. His first book, All-American Poem, won the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, published by American Poetry Review. He spoke with us in March. –Jake Uitti, The Monarch Review 1) You said in an interview for Willow Springs with Tim Greenup, “I think empathy is one of the greatest things besides love.†How do you think you arrived at this resolution? Maybe we need empathy to engage in love. […]
Like Four Peeps In A Pod
Monday, April 15, 2013 11:19 — 0 Comments
Aaron Mason (The Grapes of Rad), Aaron Roden (Air-raid.net) and Stephanie Drury (Dongtini) are podcast hosts based in Seattle, Washington. With regular episodes and thousands of followers, these three, via their own respective shows, bring conversation, interviews, jokes, music and “bombs for your earholes†to listeners all over the country. Below is a conversation I conducted with the hosts about their process, (angry) fan mail and dongs. Enjoy!Â
People Who’ve Done Real Things vol. 1 – Kermit J. Wilson
Monday, April 8, 2013 13:33 — 0 Comments
My name is Kermit Wilson, and I grew up on a farm in Southeast Oregon. Â Vale, Oregon, specifically. We eventually moved to Tieton, Washington just outside of Yakima where I went to high school. Â After graduating I messed around for a couple of years working for a construction company, mostly in Twisp, building a new school, but my home base was always the Yakima area. Â Within a short time of graduating high school meth started to show up in my circle of friends, so I joined the Army when I was 20. Â Kind of an emergency parachute to get away. […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
