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Category: News
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Let the Chapbook Series Begin!
As some of you may already know, Blue Cactus Press is participating in next week’s 2018 Summer SOULstice event at the Tacoma Art Museum (curated and hosted by Tacoma poet laureate Kellie Richardson). SOULstice supports emerging and established artists from marginalized communities, and we’re beyond excited to present our work alongside other creatives who promote…
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¡Cover Art Reveal!
Blue Cactus Press is beyond excited to officially reveal the beautiful and haunting cover art for Samuel Snoek-Brown’s forthcoming short-story collection, There Is No Other Way to Worship Them. We’d like to introduce you to two original paintings by Show Pigeon, a tattooer and painter based out of southern California. Both pieces were created exclusively…
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Let’s Podcast!
That’s right, Blue Cactus Press is starting its very own podcast! We’ll delve into the creative worlds of writers, artists, entrepreneurs and general bad-asses across the Pacific Northwest. But before we set up our microphones and chat with our cool-kid guests, we need your help! We’ve gotten ourselves into a bit of a pickle: we…
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Our New Favorite Podcast
Hello, friends! We wanted to introduce you all to our new favorite podcast: Storytellers Telling Stories. This lovely little production is a literary “radio theater” podcast created by Jude Brewer. It features a different storyteller every week (many of whom we have a serious literary crush on) narrating their literary work for listeners’ pleasure. Storytellers…
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A Poetry Reading, Plain & Simple
It may not be spring yet, but Blue Cactus Press is ready for a little pick-me-up (and we think you are, too)! So, in the hopes of luring warm weather and a few friends back onto our block, we’re inviting you to a poetry reading in Tacoma. Join Nicole McCarthy and Christina Butcher for a…
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“Transform” Community Event & Readings
Did you know Spaceworks Tacoma partnered with Creative Colloquy to present readings on transforming Tacoma’s theater district to you, dear readers, on Feb. 22? We did, and maybe we should have mentioned it sooner, but life and poetry readings and travel happened and we got a bit distracted (but we knew you’d forgive us). The readings…
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Poetry Reading @ Browsers Bookshop
The holidays are upon us! So, before everyone gets jazzed up on sugar cookies, glittery wrapping paper and tasty Christmas cocktails, I thought I’d let you know I’m kicking 2018 off with a poetry reading at Browsers Bookshop. I’m happy to say I’ll be reading alongside Olympia poet Joanne M. Clarkson, whose work I admire very…
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Listen to the Poem!
Yes, I did get that from Write253’s Louder Than A Bomb Tacoma poetry slam, but listening to poetry and truly hearing the messages authors are conveying is more important than ever as our country continues to divide itself along political and racial lines. Despite our national division, I see poets, authors, musicians and artists trying to…