June 15, 2017 — Floating Bridge Press
Floating Bridge Press publishes Washington State poets whose writing engages individuals, enriches communities, and enlivens the arts. Floating Bridge Press is a nonprofit literary arts organization, founded in 1994. It promotes the diverse voices of Washington State poets through an annual poetry chapbook competition, archival-quality books, online publishing, broadsides, and community readings. See the Facebook invitation.
Reading for Floating Bridge Press are Afrose Fatima Ahmed, Dennis Caswell, and Cynthia Neely
Afrose Fatima Ahmed writes on city streets and at the tops of evergreens. She released her first poetry chapbook, he won’t dance with me, in 2013. She is currently working on her next collection of poems, blood gold and honey, which takes the shape of a fictional tarot deck. Afrose climbs in her spare time, to gain perspective. Visit her website.
Dennis Caswell is the author of the poetry collection Phlogiston (Floating Bridge Press, 2012). His work has appeared in Bluestem, Crab Creek Review, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, and assorted other journals and anthologies. He lives outside Woodinville, Washington and works as a software engineer in the aviation industry. Visit his website.
Cynthia Neely won the 2016 Bright Hill Press and the 2011 Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment chapbook contests. Her work has appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, Pontoon, Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Creek Review, Raven Chronicles, Terrain, and in several anthologies. Her full-length book, Flight Path, was published in 2014 as a finalist in the Aldrich Press book contest.
