Five years ago, Wave Books, a Seattle-based poetry publisher, got its start. Launching a poetry-only publishing house was a leap of faith, says Wave Books editor Joshua Beckman, powered by a lot of untested ideas: "We had more ideas than we knew what to do with," he recalls.

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Richard Hugo House has a whole lotta stuff going on for Poetry month. Including some YouTube videos of poems read aloud in public spaces. Check them out here.

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