Last Saturday, September 21st, was the International Day of Peace. With that said, today’s blog is about two women who hate each other so much, they pass gas whenever they are near each other. Yes, this story is about farts. Not just any kind of farts, but farts in the workplace. This is a realContinueContinue reading “Chemical Warfare”
Author Archives: Shannon Laws
Event: Fairhaven Art Block Party
Come one, come all to the first annual Fairhaven Art Block Party!Spontaneous street poetry provided by the Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater.This festival is designed to spotlight the wonderful artistic community in the historic district of Fairhaven.I’ll be one of the street poets, with my book Madrona Grove in hand.**See you there**
Event: Books and Brews
Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater will have a table at this event,come by and meet the authors and give up some salutations!
Bong Ja Ahn’s Paper Boat
This Labor Day Weekend I was up in Vancouver, Canada for a book launch “Poet and the Paper Boat” by Korean poet Bong Ja Ahn. The book is the second in her English-Korean Poetry Anthology. This was a beautiful event held at a community center, upstairs in a corner room. Large windows and balcony doorsContinueContinue reading “Bong Ja Ahn’s Paper Boat”
Event: Tagore Festival
West Coast Tagore Festival 2013Tagore, b.May 7, 1861- d.August 7 1941, Indian poet, short-story writer, song composer, novelist, playwright, essayist, and painter. Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and theContinueContinue reading “Event: Tagore Festival”
Poetry: Robert Lashley
“Boards occupy a space between the mind andthe construction of the temporal. Cadences.” R.LashleyRobert Lashley Robert Lashley Robert LashleyLace covered lamp shade winksAs you walk toward the micCeiling fan squeaks approval of your presence Coffee shop poets snap anticipationAs your hand finds your poemIn a notebook of poemsNoble Prince of PoetryRoyal Performer of WordsNational ManagerContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Robert Lashley”
Poetry: Evening Walk
EVENING WALKIn an evening walkI’ll calculate my next moveCoordinate my conversationsConsider the risksConceive inspirationAn evening walk willTidy my headWarm my heartMake my nose runRed scarf flies like a flagOf freedom and lifeWrapped around meCoiled across my mouthThat’s speaking only fogUnder the street lightsI travel across timeThe sidewalk is my pathStreet signs guide meThe alleyway homeLightsContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Evening Walk”
Poetry: Landmark
stone marker stabbed into earth nail cross hammered north to south drawsthe boundary once cared for by neighbor’sneed to see where ones property ends another beginsadopted by the city as reference for roadshow many like these are in my mind, metal pierced monuments to touch, places to visit beforeI go to dream crossing linesdrawn in sand****Photo: EnglishContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Landmark”
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Artist Profile/B’ham Herald
Artist Profile Interview from June 2013
By MARGARET BIKMAN — THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
Shannon Laws, photo credit Cheryl Ford, 2013
Shannon P. Laws was born in Seattle and raised in Federal Way, where, she says, “as a teenager I learned that when a guy from Auburn asks you out on a date, he will most likely pick you up in a stolen car.”
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