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 Laureatefriend and colleague Kathleen Flennikencheck 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.