Hello—

You’ve reached the website of Seattle poet Marjorie Manwaring. Thanks for visiting!

What’s new:

• Three poems and an interview up on failbetter.
• New chapbook, What to Make of a Diminished Thing, coming out in Spring 2012 from Dancing Girl Press.
• First full-length poetry collection to be published by Mayapple Press in early 2013!
• Poems published in these newly released anthologies:
  — A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry
  — Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined
  — Becoming: What Makes a Woman
  — Fire on Her Tongue: An eBook Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry
  — A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology; poetry via Google Earth! Find out more on editor Katharine Whitcomb’s website.
• Washington state has a new Poet Laureate—friend and colleague Kathleen Flenniken—check out her blog "The Far Field."
• Three of my writing group colleagues have first books out! I highly recommend each of them:
  Elizabeth Austen: Every Dress a Decision; Arlene Kim: What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?; Anne Overstreet: Delicate Machinery Suspended
  

Listen to a podcast in which I read some poems and answer some questions posed by Jack Straw curator Jared Leising. Recorded at Jack Straw Studios in 2010.

You can get a copy of my chapbook Magic Word at Open Books or at one of my readings, or by e-mailing me.

What do Bat Boy, Eskimo Pies, mayflies, and magicians have in common? Find out.

You can read a selection of my poems here on this site.