One Hundred Steps in the News

Jenifer Lawrence's first book, One Hundred Steps from Shore, is a Best Seller!

One Hundred Steps was recently listed in the top five paperbacks sold by Eagle Harbor Books.

Also, the poem "It was Snowing and it was going to Snow" is going to be in an anthology called "Poem, Revised-- A behind-the-scenes look at writing poetry". Marion Street Press will publish the book in 2008. Several versions of the poem together with a kind of running commentary on how the changes came about will be printed in their entirety.

Check back soon for more information on Jenifer's upcoming readings and a video of her first reading from the book at the Poulsbohemian.

100 Steps from Shore at Eagle Harbor Books

John Willson introducing the poets















Jenifer reads from her book

Pictures of Jenifer's First Reading from Jim Bodeen

 

Upcoming Readings for Jenifer Lawrence

Join Jenifer for a special book launch celebration for One Hundred Steps from Shore this Saturday!
(*click links for more information)

October 21, 2006, 7pm Poulsbohemian Coffeehouse, Poulsbo

Then, be sure to mark your calendar for the following dates. Check back for more TBA readings

(maybe you can follow her around in a van like a Deadhead...a JenHead?)

November 12, 2006, 3pm Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge Island, WA

February 8, 2007, 7pm Northwind Gallery, Port Townsend, WA

February 15, 2007, 7pm SoulFood Books, Redmond, WA (reading with special guest, Dan Peters)

March 6, 2007 , 12pm Foothills Writers Series, Peninsula College, Port Angeles

June 2, 2007, 7pm Poulsbohemian Coffeehouse, Poulsbo, WA

The Secret Language in the news

From Kim Nowacki the Yakima Herald Republic:(click for entire article)


The book is a warm, candid and insightful memoir of the nonverbal traditions -- gesture, habit, disposition -- that pass among women. Martin's prose is subtle in its power to relate what connects a mother and child, sisters, friends and romantic relationships.

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Martin conveys with a poignant but astute observance, the wide-eyed wonderment and reckless abandonment of childhood, as well as the perils of growing older and then finally solace, and where to find it.

"It's absolutely the best work I can do at this point in my life," she says.

"So now it's a blank page again."

One Hundred Steps from Shore

Jenifer Browne Lawrence reading Red Shrine from her debut book from Blue Begonia Press Please join Jenifer and Blue Begonia Press for a special book launch reading and celebration, Saturday, October 21st, at the Poulsbohemian Coffehouse. for more information and to order, visit Blue Begonia Press *Correction to the credits: Cover Design by Craig Naugle.

The Secret Language of Women

Terry Martin reads from her new book, "The Secret Language of Women". Please join Terry and Blue Begonia Press for a special book launch and reading, Saturday, October 7th, 7pm at Oak Hollow Gallery in Yakima.

Coming Soon...

 

Scenes from Weathered Pages Port Townsend Reading

June, 2005

Weathered Pages and Terry Martin

Jewel Box Theatre, 225 Iverson St., Poulsbo, WA 98370,
contact Jenifer Lawrence at jewelboxpoets@comcast.net

Coming up on September 17, 2006
Terry Martin and the Weathered Pages Poets.


Terry Martin is the author of The Secret Language of Women, just out from Blue Begonia Press. Says Lucinda Roy of Terry’s work: “…Terry Martin paints a portrait of a world in which the most crucial language is often wordless and mystical. In these powerful poems, the sublime is housed within the domestic: kitchens are cathedrals, and the geometry of rituals sustained by women teach us how to sing. Even as she acknowledges the transience and fragility of all things, Martin finds constancy in the patience of boulders, and locates hope in the brilliant firelight of the firefly. This is a collection about what we dare to love and what dares to love us back. It’s a celebration of the many paths we take as we edge toward the warm, the changing light.


In addition, this program will bring together several writers from the Weathered Pages Anthology.


A six-foot cedar post, the word POETRY carved on both the east and west sides, planted in a garden on a street corner in Yakima, pushpins stuck in the wood. For ten years, hundreds of people have pinned thousands of poems to the Poetry Pole at Blue Begonia Press. After time in the weather, the pages have been taken down and saved—until now. This book includes over 200 poems by poets from all corners of the country and from around the world, who have joined poets from Yakima in posting their work. Some contributors are being published here for the first time; others are internationally known. Poems collected here represent a decade of testimony pinned and flying from a cedar post planted in a garden. They may trigger what you're looking for in your own life.

There is room on the Poetry Pole for everybody.


October 15 brings to the Jewel Box--Kevin Miller and Joseph Green, outstanding Washington poets, and November 19 features the last program of the year with the fiery wit of Jeannine Hall Gailey, reading with Seattle poet Judith Skillman.


The Jewel Box Poets are taking December off to shop, wrap, rest and plan for 2007. The first reading of the new year will be held Sunday, January 21, 2007.

Lynn Martin at Yvcc

Judith Skillman at YVCC

Gayle Kaune at YVCC

Charles Potts Video

Lynn Martin Reading Tuesday May 30th

From Wauna--Lynn Martin



Parker Room, Higher Education Center, YVCC
Reading Begin at 730

“Arising from a sequence of great losses, Lynn
Martin’s poems walk straight into the deepest sorrow. There, face to face with the most terrifying state of not knowing, they expand outward to the farthest rim of
affirmation—where the blue bowl holds everything.”
—Noelle Oxenhandler, Essayist, The New Yorker

YVCC Weathered Pages Reading

730 pm Parker Room, Higher Education Center,

Free and open to the public

Featuring YVCC Students and Staff

From Yakima—May 15th: Editors, Weathered Pages Anthology Jim Bodeen, Terry Martin, and Rob Prout.

A six-foot cedar post, the word POETRY carved on both the east and west sides, planted in a garden on a street corner in Yakima, pushpins stuck in the wood. For ten years, hundreds of people have pinned thousands of poems to the Poetry Pole at Blue Begonia Press. After time in the weather, the pages have been taken down and saved—until now. Poems collected here represent a decade of testimony pinned and flying from a cedar post planted in a garden. They may trigger what you're looking for in your own life.

There is room on the Poetry Pole for everybody

Scenes from Gayle Kaune Lecture/Reading

Gayle Kaune at YVCC's Writers and Ideas Reading
April 3rd.









with Travis Hantz













with Ashley Hood

Scenes from Cashmere Reading

Thanks to Derek Sheffield for setting up the reading and sending these images.
Next reading, Burning Word Festival, Whidbey Island

From Friday's On Magazine YHR

from YHR's Kim Nowacki, in On Magazine First Anniversary Issue

Writers and Ideas poetry class returns this spring to Yakima Valley Community College.

But you don't have to be a YVCC student to attend....A portion of the class is open to the public and features free readings by poets who have been published in Yakima's Blue Begonia Press.

All readings are on Mondays at 730pm at YVCC in the Parker Room of the Deccio Higher Education Center, 1000 S. 12th Ave.

(This week's) reading will be by Charles Potts, a member of the 1968 Berkeley poetry explosion and author of numerous books, including an underground class "Valga Krusa."

A serious poet with a political bent and a smirking sense of humor, Potts can be found these days working out of an old Masonic temple-turned-Bohemian paradise--a place of literary and artistic worship--in downtown Walla Walla.

The remaining Writers and Ideas reading dates and poets are:

May 1: Judith Skillman, Seattle
May 15th, "Weathered Pages" editors, Yakima
May 3oth: Lynn Martin, Wauna, Wash.

Charles Potts at YVCC

April 17th: Charles Potts has had a dozen books of poetry published since 1996, the most recent: The Portable Potts from Albuquerque’s West End Press in 2005. Other new titles still in print include three from Blue Begonia Press in Yakima: Kiot: Selected Early Poems, 1963-1977, Lost River Mountain and Slash & Burn; Across the North Pacific from Slough Press; a reprint of Little Lord Shiva: The Berkeley Poems, 1968, from Glass Eye Books; and Nature Lovers from Pleasure Boat Studio. Other books in print include How the South Finally Won the Civil War: And Controls the Political Future of the United States.