Vashon Poetry Page

03/27/2024

Vashon Poets (established poets and new poets) —

The Beachcomber is reviving Poetry Corner and will be publishing at least a poem a month and possibly even one a week with enough poetry submissions and sponsors.

For information for how to be a one-time or recurring sponsor of a poem or for details on how to submit a poem for consideration for sponsorship and publishing, please email [email protected]

03/03/2024

This

A Reason To Smile

10/06/2023

Liz Shepherd’s hot off the press Vashon Beachcomber recommendation for Susan Lynch’s Into the All Empty gets the bio spot on, while promoting the reading/signing at Vashon Bookshop next Thursday, October 12th at 5 pm.

09/25/2023

It’s happening!

09/25/2023

Now available for preorder at this link

Available for presale. This book will be released October 3, 2023. This debut book of poems is a macrocosm of breathtaking wisdom. Into the All Empty is for anyone who has endured loss, regret, and loneliness. These brave, wildly delightful poems deftly interweave physics and quantum theory, awa

09/25/2023

Congratulations to Vashon Island Poet Laureate Margaret Roncone, 2023-2025, inducted today at Dig Deep Gardens

02/15/2023

Wonderful!

Joy Harjo has been named the winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. The Bollingen Prize, established by Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by Yale University Library through Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to an American poet for the best book published during...

07/12/2022

Ada Limón is our new U.S. poet laureate! “I am humbled by this opportunity to work in the service of poetry and to amplify poetry’s ability to restore our humanity and our relationship to the world around us." Read more: https://at.pw.org/Limón

04/28/2022

Analog has more soul

T Bone Burnett has unveiled a new analog audio format that he’s calling “the pinnacle of recorded sound.” He teamed up with Bob Dylan, who re-recorded a number of his own songs, for what is being called an Ionic Original, a one-of-a-kind disc that apparently surpasses the sonic fidelity of exi...

02/07/2022

Fresh today on Pontoon Poetry, from former Vashon Poet Laureate Susan Lynch

Zero Point Susan Lynch Sometimes it all seems pointless, then science proves we’re marvelous beyond our ken, miraculous as planets, badass as day-flying dragonfly eyes and as I watch them rove, I l…