Ping-Pong Free Press and Poetry International will be hosting a poetry reading/performance art exhibit at the Coagula Curatorial Gallery at 7:30 pm on March 31st, 2016 during the AWP conference. If you can’t make it come by our table at the conference: 559!

Featured Readers:

Malena Morling

Michael Waters

Katie Farris

Mihaela Moscaliuc

Katie Ford

Jesse Nathan

James Meetze

Janel Spencer

Jenny Minniti-Shippey

Adam Deutsch

Maria Garcia Teutsch

River Atwood Tabor

with special guest: Babe Teeth in performance!

PING PONG & POETRY CRUSH CROSS-POLLINATE AT THE BUTTERFLY LOUNGE
(inside Grimm’s)

7-10pm, Seattle, Washington

Start off your Thursday night with a mysterious and intimate reading experience at Seattle’s Butterfly Lounge –The dark wood & walls of glass-cased butterflies are sure to inspire courageous & metamorphic readings.  Arrive as larva, depart as butterfly.

Readers include:  Kim Addonizio, Tara Rebele, James Harms, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Joanna Fuhrman, Joe Hall,  Cheryl Quimba, Adeena Karasick, Amy Lawless, James Maughn, Sampson Starkweather, Dan Shapiro, J. Hope Stein, Rauan Klassnik, Janaka Stucky, Maria Garcia Teutsch, Peter Kline and Brittany Perham.

Check out the post on Poetry Crush here

Dear Reader,
Once again you’re doing that thing that’s most important, reading this literary journal. Some smart people say that print journals are a thing of the past, but I say–as I listen to a blue vinyl Radiohead album–not so mon frère. Those of us who love paper, who love words, who love the crack of a spine will always reach for a book. Not to disparage all the multimedia at our fingertips. I have a teenage son, I know what’s up with all that stuff, and I love being able to slip a tiny electronic device into my carry-on when I’m flying all over this blue marble. Sometimes all I need is to read a poem by someone whose voice I need to hear that day on that island or on that train. Read More >

Dear Reader,

Thank you for picking up this magazine. Inside you will find a world of wonders. If you are like most people you will flick through and look at the art first. We are proud to feature gallery prints from iconic photographer Kim Weston. The art editor and I met Kim a few years ago at the Henry Miller Library over dinner, and have been trying to get his beautiful photographs in our magazine ever since. It is thanks to the dogged tenacity of River Tabor that we are able to feature work by an astounding member of the Weston dynasty. Read More >