Reading in Issaquah with Kelly Davio tomorrow, more house excitement, and the news
Talking Pages Poetry Night
August 18, 7 p.m.
Historic Shell Station
232 Front St. N., Issaquah
This month, the Talking Pages Reading Series focuses on poetry. We’d love to hear your original poetry during the open mic portion of our evening. Read our Participant Guidelines for more information.
We are pleased to welcome featured poets Jeannine Hall Gailey and Kelly Davio for our August event.
Jeannine Hall Gailey is a former Redmond poet laureate and the author of four books of poetry.
Read more about Jeannine Hall Gailey.
Kelly Davio is poetry editor of Tahoma Review and author of the poetry collection Burn This House.
Read more about Kelly Davio.
Talking Pages is co-sponsored by the City of Issaquah Arts Commission.
You should come out! It will be fun! See? Those are our headshots, but this is what we look like in real life – superfun!
And if everything goes smoothly, we’ll be closing on our house sale (gulp) this Thursday! Crazy! Have we found another house to live in yet? No!!! We went in and saw another do-able house, but the pre-inspection revealed mold, this time both under and over the house. It’s a big problem with older homes here, unfortunately, and I’m super-sensitive to mold. So, onward!
Terrible stuff in the news today – a bombing in Bangkok, where my little brother lived until recently, and shellings in the Ukraine. A big explosion in China that they sort of, but not really, covered up. On a lesser level, a dustup about AWP not awarding a creative non-fiction award this year. (With 178 entries, they should have been able to find one they could at least edit into excellence, right?) I’m taking my husband, G, to the doctor today to follow up on his hospital test results, which were somewhat worrying, so we hope they have some good answers and advice for us there. A lot of unease out there right now, in the atmosphere, in me. You feel powerless in the face of bad things, because in some ways, we are. We can only do what we can in the space and time we are given.
