For the final event in WordsWest's "standard" format, C & P Coffee Company's owner Peter Moores presented a Favorite Poem: "Gratitude" by Norah Tunney. The wonder team of Abi Pollokoff and Gabrielle Bates of Open Books offered pre-release copies of The Scent Keeper and beautiful, hardback editions of Alan's poetry collection Blues and Greens: A Produce Worker's Journal. Gratitude is certainly what we felt for these wonderful authors and this amazing community.
In the penultimate event in WordsWest's five-year history, novelist Erica Bauermeister and poet/visual artist Alan Chong Lau created alchemy by "Awakening the Senses" with prose and poetry that spanned a remote location off of Vancouver Island (population: 2) to the bustling produce section in the Chinatown/International District's Uwajimaya. Erica presented the very first, Seattle preview reading of her latest novel The Scent Keeper that moved her heroine Emmeline from safety of her father and the mysterious scents stored in bottles to the fast-paced world of NYC scent-branding. Alan's poetry moved effortlessly from the wandering Hakka people in China to the woman who grows and sells bean sprouts (and her many daughters). The house was full, the audience was rapt, and time expanded.
For the final event in WordsWest's "standard" format, C & P Coffee Company's owner Peter Moores presented a Favorite Poem: "Gratitude" by Norah Tunney. The wonder team of Abi Pollokoff and Gabrielle Bates of Open Books offered pre-release copies of The Scent Keeper and beautiful, hardback editions of Alan's poetry collection Blues and Greens: A Produce Worker's Journal. Gratitude is certainly what we felt for these wonderful authors and this amazing community.
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