EWU’s Willow Springs returns with 75th edition
Willow Springs, the literary magazine of Eastern Washington University, has announced its spring issue.
Issue No. 75 features poetry by former Washington poet laureate Kathleen Flenniken, Colin Pope, Alex Chertok and Dana Levin, among others. There’s fiction by J. Robert Lennon, author of seven novels and two short story collections; Robert Lopez, author of “ Kamby Bolongo Mean River;” and Lucas Southworth, whose short story collection “Everyone Here Has a Gun” was released in 2013. The issue also includes interviews with author and journalist William T. Vollman and poet and author Cate Marvin.
Order the issue online at willowsprings.ewu.edu, or look for it soon at Auntie’s Bookstore and area Hastings locations.
Visiting authors
Speaking of Eastern, the EWU Visiting Writers Series is bringing two poets to Auntie’s on Friday.
Andrea Scarpino is the author of the poetry collections “Once, Then” (2014) and “The Grove Behind” (2009). She runs the Master of Arts program for Union Institute and University, an online, distance-based nonprofit college.
William Wright, the 2016 writer-in-residence at the University of Tennessee, has published seven poetry collections and chapbooks, with an eighth, “Tree Heresies,” set to be released in April. He helps edit the journals the Southern Poetry Anthology, Shenandoah, and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry.
They’ll be at Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave., beginning at 8 p.m. Admission is free. The series is co-sponsored by the Inland Northwest Center for Writers and Get Lit. For details, visit getlitprograms.org.
The Eastern trifecta
The finals for Poetry Out Loud, also sponsored by Get Lit, will be Thursday at the Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave.
This national arts competition features high school students reciting memorized poetry. Two of the winners from this regional competition will go on to compete at the state contest on March 7 in Tacoma. The winner there wins $200 and an all-expenses-paid trip to the national finals in Washington, D.C., in April.
Schools fielding candidates in Thursday’s events are East Valley, Jenkins (Chewelah), Lakeside, Liberty Bell (Winthrop), Mead, Mead Alternative, Methow Valley Independent Learning Center, Mt. Spokane, the Oaks, Okanogan, Selkirk and Westside (Wenatchee).
The event Thursday begins at 7 p.m. and admission is free. For more information, visit www.poetryoutloud.org.