SHORT RUN 2017

Two Plum Press was proud to table at Short Run in Seattle again this November!

When the event was over, I thought "Hmm, I wonder why they didn't have the photographer going around taking those great portraits again this year?" Well, it turns out they did– as my arm is visible to the left in this photo of Delphine. I'm even wearing my nice camel hair shirt! But did they take myyyy portrait? Nooooooo. Whatever Short Run!

Included for your enjoyment is my favorite Two Plum Press super fan in all the land: Tony. I met Tony years ago at one of the APRIL festivals, and he's just the greatest. He sat across from Delphine and I this year and we got to wave periodically. Hi Tony! Anyway, I'll just assume I didn't make the documentation this year because I was too busy getting literature into the hands of Seattle. 

This Short Run also marked the release of two new books I've written. The first is the new, Sasquatch Books edition of my cookbook: The Myrtlewood Cookbook: Pacific Northwest Home Cooking, and the second is Collected Coffee Bags, put out by Delphine right there at Quotidian Press. 

new title on the horizon

We're thrilled to be working on this new book of poems by Zachary Schomburg! 

Reading at ASSOCIATION SHOP

We are excited to be doing our one tabling, buy-direct-from-your-publisher event of this summer at a fantastic fancyshop, Association. Come hear Delphine and Michelle read! Drink wine! Eat snacks!

Boston Globe review of "Book To Share"

Click here to see The Boston Globe's review of Emma Young's Book To Share. This is, unquestionably, the most exciting review we've had in any publication to date. 

How it took me 6 months to get around to posting this, we'll just never know. But here is a copy of the text and accompanying photo:

Poems Intoxicated By This World. 

Emma Young writes earthy poems. Her lines are pressed with the world we know — a tulip bulb, a shoulder blade, grapefruits, wind, waves, sesame seeds on an oiled pan — and her images seep up, like blood through a cloth, or seep through, like light in a fog. “The hay bales are inviting sleep./ Why not stay here, they husk.” Like May Sarton, Mary Oliver, and Basho, Young’s poems are exclamatory, candid, thrilled, intoxicated by this world, and deeply wise. “When you are hot,/remember what it feels like/when you are laughing/and out in the cold.” Young, who is also a designer and printmaker, is poet laureate of West Tisbury on her native Martha’s Vineyard; she’s the youngest poet, at 30, to occupy the role. Her sensual new poetry collection, “Book To Share,’’ just released by Portland, Oregon’s Two Plum Press, gathers work she’s done over the past decade and reveals a voice of penetrating grace. NINA MACLAUGHLIN

photo of Emma Young by Maggie Shannon

APRIL Festival 2017 (farewell, APRIL!)

Two Plum Press was pleased to make our 3rd appearance at the APRIL Festival in Seattle. This year, for the first time ever, the festival was actually in April. Aaaaaand it was also the last one ever, so that was kind of a drag. But we had a nice time in a weird back office room with our pals at Octopus Books and Quotidian Press. Some other vendor guy was pouring shots of whiskey. We made a janky "Free Booze!" sign to tempt festival goers into our room. We think it worked about half of the time.