Stories that Heal: A Workshop and Collaborative Reading from Alternative Perspectives
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. |
WordsWest Literary Series Co-Curators Susan Rich, Harold Taw, and Katy E. Ellis. (Photo: Patrick Sand)
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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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