UPDATE: This event is a success and still happening every month during Art Walk. The corner moves from time to time. Look for “Poet’s Corner” on the Art Walk map, walk by to enjoy some original words by your neighborhood poets! # Art Walk Bellingham and the Downtown Bellingham PartnershipContinueContinue reading “Event: Poets’ Corner”
Author Archives: Shannon Laws
Poem: As an Old Man Who Sleeps Standing Up
His eyes close As if he prays Corners of his mouth Move as a young cat Dreams of suckling Does his faith send a Request to his god Or does he dream. A tear falls from the Outside corner Lands on his collar No—it’s sweat, A drop from his hair. Old man is like aContinueContinue reading “Poem: As an Old Man Who Sleeps Standing Up”
Poem: Deaths Dip
Death’s Dip or Confession of a Mattress FREE mattress. A queen size pillow top took it home, laid it in the frame First night—I rolled into a dip a body shaped dip on the left side a person taller than me, wider than me created a dip that I roll into a bedridden, sickly person left a death dip NoContinueContinue reading “Poem: Deaths Dip”
Poem / Song: When We Gather
There’s a revolution flowing through us when we gather it is screaming to be free There’s a revelation flowing through us when we gather it is screaming to be free -SPL More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Freddie_Gray #
Event: Bellingham Poetry Gallery
You’re invited… May 8th, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. at the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention on Bay Street Erica Reed is a visionary. Did you know there were 18 poetry groups and open mics in our medium sized city of Bellingham? (really 19, but one can’t make it) At most I thought perhaps onlyContinueContinue reading “Event: Bellingham Poetry Gallery”
Story Weaver
Went for a long walk today. This year April in the Northwest is warmer than normal. The tulips lining the yards of my neighbors have already risen, bloomed and most are now just stalks of green. Apple and cherry blossoms line the street to the trail head. Digging into the trail I heard the streamContinueContinue reading “Story Weaver”
Poem: Cheap Requests
The catholic prayers of my father rise with Smoke from a veladora wick Sanctuary Series Assorted Saints only $19.99 Repeating parts that turn In a truck engine hum idle outside It is not the wind Not the ocean Not the rain As murmurs groan request Sets me in a day dream. An atom beatContinueContinue reading “Poem: Cheap Requests”
Event: WWU Erotic Poetry Night
You are invited to Erotic Poetry Night April 16th 7-9 p.m. @ The Underground Coffeehouse, WWU, Bellingham, WA What is Erotic Poetry Night? The Associated Students Sexual Awareness Center on the campus of Western Washington University hosts this popular event. Basically, it is a poetry reading laced with “safe sex” PSA’s. I had the opportunityContinueContinue reading “Event: WWU Erotic Poetry Night”
Meet Poet Dee Dee Chapman
The first time I heard Dee Dee share her poetry was in 2011 at the infamous Poetry Night Open Mic when it was located at the Amadeus Project on Cornwall. She had the guts to walk up on stage and share a process poem about an intimate subject matter, then return to her chair likeContinueContinue reading “Meet Poet Dee Dee Chapman”
Event: A Night at the Gallery
You are invited to A Night at the Gallery Saturday March 21st, 7:00 p.m. “BRD recently received incredible community support for a new choreographic project with Seattle modern dance great, Mary Sheldon Scott. Join the dancers of Bellingham Repertory Dance and choreographer Scott on Saturday, March 21st for a unique performance in the Western Gallery.ContinueContinue reading “Event: A Night at the Gallery”
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