Literary Nights | April 22 | Capri Cellars
Earth Day Incantation – Forces of nature, gardens of eden, hellish landscapes and fermented grapes
Is the state of our current environment symptomatic of a Mother Earth pushed too far? She walks barefoot through stony streets, shedding blood. Fishes wriggle in rushing waters and singing whales appear in the bay. Her wrath, patient and ancient, awakens to clear the space once again. Rebirth me, mother. Make me anew. Let me drink wine and listen to words of poetry and prose. Let me rise and speak in my own tongue — the spell I write on a napkin.
Featuring:
Ryan Boudinot, whose novels map the Pacific Northwest's fractured utopias
Dario Cvencek, a Bosnian War refugee turned Seattle poet whose debut collections excavate the stubborn persistence of love
Diana Xin, whose debut story collection Book of Exemplary Women traces an intergenerational haunting — girls and women bending against erasure, finding new forms large enough to hold what they carry
IZ White, enrolled Snoqualmie tribal poet and electrifying spoken word performer, writing from this very soil since 1996 — whose live readings leave audiences asking to buy a book that doesn't yet exist
Alongside fine wines and an open mic.