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Christopher J. Jarmick

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Writer/Poet Christopher J. Jarmick opened BookTree, the only new and used general interest bookstore in Kirkland, Wa. in 2016. He opened the store with Mary Harris formerly of Park Place Books who retired in 2017. He is almost as surprised as some of you that he would open an independent bookstore. It was a necessary thing, however. The Bookstore hosts author events, story time for pre-schoolers and of course poetry readings and open mics (every 1st Saturday). There is a current BookTree GoFund Me campaign October to December 2023. If you care about independent bookstores please share the campaign with people you know. If you are able to donate...thank you for doing so. If you ever in the Kirkland, Wa. area please stop in.

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	Not Aloud 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ignition: Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements & Double Dog Dares it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass Cocoon it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Randomly Accessed Poetics: Ghost House it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry Quarterly: Winter 2014 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. The

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¡ POETRY ! — 22582 members — last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

The Well in the Garden Poetry Group — 63 members — last activity Dec 18, 2023 06:29AM
The group is for sharing our poetry with each other. I encourage you to share any poetry you wish and I may occasionally issue a challenge but I warn ...more

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message 5: by Christopher

Mar 10, 2015 08:15PM

Jan wrote: "What Julene said, Chris! And hi, Julene, too!"

Greetings back at you!

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message 4: by Jan

Mar 10, 2015 07:22PM

What Julene said, Chris! And hi, Julene, too!

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message 3: by Christopher

Mar 10, 2015 04:57PM

It was time to claim my Author page and update things. Become a fan/follower/friend soon.

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message 2: by Christopher

Oct 19, 2009 03:26PM

This week it's Seattle Bookfest preperations.... so much to do.........

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message 1: by Julene

Oct 19, 2009 01:33PM

Hi Chris,
Glad you came to find me! I look forward to sharing book notes. I mostly just use this site to keep track of my reading, it's been quite a helpful tool so far.
Julene

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