Heidi Seaborn w/ Suzanne Edison, Tina Schumann, & Cindy Veach, TIC TIC TIC

Poet and editor Heidi Seaborn launches her third book of poetry, tic tic tic, at the store. tic tic tic is a clear-eyed lyric take on the chaos of our times, yet an affirmation of the human spirit. A life is lived, a new generation created, faith smolders, love and hope persist. She will be joined by fellow poets Suzanne Edison, Tina Schumann, & Cindy Veach, who will each read select work.

Registration is not required, but helps us anticipate audience size. If you'd like to RSVP, please do so here!

tic tic tic begins in the ashes of 2019—a roaring ‘20s New Year’s Eve party gives way to a pandemic, an insurrection, war after war, the possibility of tyranny and the mounting climate crisis. Along the way, the steady change of seasons and tick of time elevate the tension between the urgency of the moment and history’s expanse, between an individual’s response and the inevitable legacy of collective generations. tic tic tic is a clear-eyed lyric take on the chaos of our times, yet an affirmation of the human spirit. A life is lived, a new generation created, faith smolders, love and hope persist.

Heidi Seaborn is the author of three books of poetry, tic tic tic (2025), An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, Give a Girl Chaos, and three chapbooks. She’s won numerous awards including The Missouri Review Editors Prize in Poetry. Heidi holds degrees from Stanford and NYU and is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal.

Suzanne Edison’s book, Since the House Is Burning, was published by MoonPath Press in 2022. Her chapbook, The Body Lives Its Undoing, was published in 2018. Poetry can be found in Whale Road Review, Lily Poetry Review, JAMA, MER, and elsewhere. She is the Mental Health Coordinator at the Cure JM Foundation and teaches expressive writing to caregivers through UCSF Wellness Center for Youth with Chronic Conditions.

Tina Schumann is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Boneyard Heresies, winner of the 2023 Moon City Press Poetry Award; Praising the Paradox (Red Hen Press), finalist in the National Poetry Series; Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues (Diode Editions), winner of the Diode Chapbook Competition; and As If (Parlor City Press), winner of the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize. She is editor of the IPPY-award winning anthology Two Countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen) and poetry editor for Wandering Aengus Press. Her work received the American Poet Prize and runner-up status in the 2023 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize from The Missouri Review and the Terrain.org poetry contest. Poems have appeared since 1999 in venues such as The American Poetry Review, Ascent, Catamaran, Cimarron Review, Hunger Mountain, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, Nimrod, Poetry Daily, Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Verse Daily, and read on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. www.tinaschumann.com

Cindy Veach is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press); Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist; and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press) a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must Read;” and the chapbook, Innocents (Nixes Mate). Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Philip Booth Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize. Cindy is co-poetry editor of MER (Mom Egg Review).

Host or Publisher Elliott Bay Book Company