A perfect day for Elliot Bay Book Company and a reading…
(PS My last in Seattle for the near future…)

LYNNELL EDWARDS & JEANNINE HALL GAILEY
Saturday, June 16 at 2 p.m.

Kentucky poet Lynnell Edwards, a contributor to Poets Against the War and recipient of a 2007 Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, reads this afternoon from her second collection of poetry, The Highwayman’s Wife (Red Hen). “Edwards reinterprets old myths and legends, twists the old formal strategies, underdomesticates domesticity, mixes drinks, plants dahlias with a pick-axe, and laments and resurrects …” – Cecilia Wooloch.
She’s joined here by Seattle poet and journalist Jeannine Hall Gailey, who will read from her collection, Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe). “These full-bodies persona poems give dimension to the powerful (and powerless) female heroes of myth and comic books with strong voices that struggle against stereotype and silence.” – Dorianne Laux.