A transplanted Bostonian, Susan Rich is the winner of the PEN USA Poetry Award as well as the Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award for The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World, (White Pine Press, 2000).
I love looking at these photographs as they remind me what a perfect evening we all had. Since I almost never take photographs, Tim Woods' images seem very magical to me. I love that Madeline's corsage (from two of her admirers) figures prominently, that the age range of attendees was vast and wide - as seen here, that Madeline looked happier and more relaxed than I'd ever seen her before. Notice ...
Elliott Bay Book Company is the only bookstore to alter my life in direct and positive ways. On a twenty-four hour stop-over in Seattle, a friend-of-a-friend told me "you have to check-it out." In those days, I was a pretty typical East Coast transplant who still didn't quite believe that the Pacific Northwest could actually do some things better than back home - in particular, the ...
