WordsWest Reunion - Bringing the Band Back Together Again for a Book Launch - Susan Rich, Katy E. Ellis, and Harold Taw / Emcee Ariadne Taw

On May 25, 2022, WordsWest had a reunion to celebrate the book launch of co-curator Susan Rich’s Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry 2022). All three WordsWest co-curators read, including Katy E. Ellis, whose debut full-length, prose-poetry-novel Home Water, Home Land (Tolsun Books) is forthcoming in September 2022; and Harold Taw, who read a new short story entitled, "My Polar Summer, an essay by Agatha Lin," in which an eighth-grade girl expresses her frustration over being forced to move to Canada because her father became a polar bear. The evening was emceed by Harold's soon-to-be eighth-grade daughter Ariadne Taw, who also baked her specialty Black Magic Cake to commemorate the evening (that also included a Tres Leche cake and gluten-free cookies).

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