Exquisite Disarray - Tacoma Non-Profit Press Announces Winner, Showcase Reading

The articulately-named non-profit Tacoma press called Exquisite Disarray has selected writer Jeremy Halinen’s collection of poetry called What Other Choice as the winner of its “First Book” contest.

Exquisite Disarray will publish What Other Choice in November 2010 and showcase Halinen’s work at a reading to be held Monday, November 15 at 7 p.m. in the Olympic Room of the Tacoma Public Library’s main branch, at 1102 Tacoma Avenue South, as part of the Tacoma’s Art at Work Month.  The November 15 event, which is free and open to the public, will also recognize the runners-up in the First Book Poetry Contest and announce the winner of a separate “Best Tacoma Poem” Contest. The contest was open to all poets residing in Washington State who had not yet published a full-length volume of poetry.

Halinen is a coeditor and cofounder of Knockout Literary Magazine (knockoutlit.org). He holds an MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University and a BFA in creative writing from St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina.

Founded in 2008, Exquisite Disarray Publishing is an Associated Program of Shunpike, a 501©(3) non-profit art service organization that supports local arts communities by partnering with small and mid-size arts groups.  Shunpike provides support to Exquisite Disarray Publishing in the form of financial reporting, organizational management, and arts administration.  Exquisite Disarray is best known to Tacomans as the publisher of In Tahoma’s Shadow, an anthology of 77 Tacoma-area poets it released in 2009. In Tahoma’s Shadow and the Exquisite Disarray First Book Contest receive support from the Tacoma Arts Commission’s Arts Project funding.

Learn more at the Exquisite Disarray Facebook page here