Special WordsWest Reunion, May 25, 2022, 7pm, C & P Coffee Company!
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WordsWest Literary SeriesThanks for five glorious years! From September 2014 to June 2019, WordsWest hosted monthly literary events on the third Wednesday of the month at C & P Coffee Company.
Our guests included some of the finest poets and writers in Seattle and the nation. Every event also featured a community member presenting a Favorite Poem. Below is an "exquisite corpse" poem assembled by the audience on June 19, 2019, from randomly selected lines by WordsWest authors (seasons 1 to 5). A framed version of this poem hangs on the walls of C & P Coffee Co. and the PDF file may be downloaded below. |
You Must Love What Is Raw and Hungered For
January Gill O'Neil, Season 1 Meanwhile, the sunlight off broken glass is everywhere Oliver de la Paz, Season 2 I make a box of darkness with a bird in its heart Terrance Hayes, Season 3 …you will see my name become a little kite dancing in the wind Daemond Arrindell, Season 4 Tonight we don't die and don't die Ilya Kaminsky, Season 5 I learned to hear her voice as a kind of map Kate Lebo, Season 1 This is the place where my baby bones, still soft, were cast into the river Jourdan Imani Keith, Season 2 There are several ways to talk about the haunted Imani Sims, Season 3 What does a fifteen-year-old girl know of patience? Aimee Nehukumatathil, Season 4 Don’t bury me under briars called romantic Joannie Stangeland, Season 5 Razed down to the quick, her roses promise to return. Prolific. Invasive. Allen Braden, Season 1 I was trapped by my own reflection Dana Simpson, Season 2 Our new bodies obliterate old frontiers Laura Da', Season 3 That we can know what it is for a fox to be happy Elizabeth Bradfield, Season 4 In the sibilation of its leaving it says what air would say Bruce Beasley, Season 5 |
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