For the West Seattle Favorite Poem Project, West Seattleite Glenn Brooks shared William Carlos Williams's "This Is Just to Say," and then he followed up with a riff on it from his daughter, which began, "This is just to say I killed the cockroach." To wrap up the evening, Melinda and Dianne took time to answer questions about their research and writing processes. The energy between them was electric, and people lingered to talk long after the official event had ended.
In a celebration of Women's History Month and women's stories, writers Melinda Mueller and Dianne Aprile read on March 21, 2018 to a full house at Words West 33, "Who Tells Her Story?" Melinda Mueller began the evening with her poem about the Virgin Mary, whose story was "conceived years later by men / who had not been there." Mueller continued with poems of other Marys often overlooked, including Mary Easty, hung during the Salem witch trials, and Mary Anning, a "fossilist" likely the source of the "She sells sea shells" tongue-twister. Dianne Aprile read from her hybrid memoire about her aunt whose story of trauma—repressed by the family—led to anxiety and a lobotomy. The audience was mesmerized by the poems and the memoir—and how the different silences and dismissals they told of resonated with each other.
For the West Seattle Favorite Poem Project, West Seattleite Glenn Brooks shared William Carlos Williams's "This Is Just to Say," and then he followed up with a riff on it from his daughter, which began, "This is just to say I killed the cockroach." To wrap up the evening, Melinda and Dianne took time to answer questions about their research and writing processes. The energy between them was electric, and people lingered to talk long after the official event had ended.
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