Tonight was the Post Defiance Winter Reading, one of my favorite events of the Christmas holiday season.
This time, it was 35 people—friends, neighbors, strangers—with some connection to Tacoma's culture, art, and literary website Post Defiance, gathering in a private home filled with Christmas decorations and reading winter and/or holiday themed stories, poems, and essays to one another.
Three people read original work. The rest of the evening readings included (but were not limited to) the following works: "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen; "February" by Margaret Atwood; an excerpt from The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey; an excerpt from Sightlines: A Conversation with the Natural World by Kathleen Jamie; an excerpt from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame; "Storm Home" by Garrison Keillor; "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service; and much more.
I read "Tonrat the Watchmaker Bestows His Wishes on Her/Me" by dg
nanouk okpik from her poetry collection Corpse Whale and children's
picture book Polar Bear Night written by Lauren Thompson and illustrated
by Stephen Savage.
In addition to time for readings, we ate and drank and conversed.
It was a magical night.
In addition to time for readings, we ate and drank and conversed.
It was a magical night.
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