FM 88.5 KNKX interviewed me about Yesler Way and the Kesslers on it. Listen to me read an excerpt from “Profanity Hill: A Tour of Yesler Way” (anthologized in Ghosts of Seattle Past) and talk about gentrification and uncovering lost history.
http://knkx.org/post/finding-your-familys-ghosts-your-own-backyard
(Herman “Pop” Kessler, Klondiker and my great-great-grandfather)
Mutha Magazine published my essay, first performed at Washington Ensemble Theatre‘s Six Pack Series Celebrity-themed night (in the old space on 19th Ave E, previously the Northwest Film Forum’s Little Theater/Wiggly World where this photo happened:)
with my best lady Betsey Brock, master of sock puppets.
She took this picture of me directing her on how sock puppets interact. Betsey masterfully transformed a pink sock into a vulva puppet that night, and somehow operated 3 sock puppets with 2 hands and a foot.
Read the essay here.
This essay was commissioned by SAL on the occasion of our program featuring Judy Blume in the 2014/15 Literary Arts Series, on June 11, 2015. It was written by WITS Writer-in-Residence Rachel Kessl…
Source: From the Archive: “Are You There, Judy Blume? It’s Me, Rachel”, by Rachel Kessler
I wrote about Imposter Syndrome, feeling like a big faker, and my desire for revolution in the May issue of City Arts Magazine.
http://cityartsonline.com/articles/fake-it-%E2%80%99til-you-make-it
I was Seattle Review of Books’ eyes on the ground at the AWP conference and bookfair in Los Angeles this year, attending readings and panels all day and into the night, then gathering all my notes and writing a blog post at 3:00 in the morning, every day. Whoo-wee!
Start here:
An essay I wrote and some cartoons I drew are up on LitHub today! Thanks to Seattle Arts & Lectures for bringing out Emily St. John Mandel, the author of Station Eleven, which inspired this essay, and to Rebecca Hoogs for commissioning me to write it, and to Literary Hub for publishing it, including my apocalypse-obsessed cartoons.
Check out my essay about how poetry activates civic space and my ideas about Seattle’s Civic Poet in the July issue of Seattle Metropolitan!
I was at the Columbia City Theater, waiting for The Blow to play, when Christopher Frizzelle complimented my earrings. To which I responded with a story, of course.
He made me write this article about it.
An oldie but a goodie: a CHOW review in The Stranger of the old Goodwill’s cafe featuring Marie, who just turned 90 this week!
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/vintage-cafe/Content?oid=5035
Another funny story about the Fremont Transfer Station (aka The Dump) and late term pregnancy:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/pacific-inn-pub/Content?oid=5305
Rachel Kessler 