The eighth annual meeting of the Cephalopod Appreciation Society is called to order.
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More than one-hundred fans of the octopus, the squid, the cuttlefish, and the chambered nautilus filled Hugo House this evening. They were gathered to shout out facts about their favorite cephalopod, to listen to poems about cephalopods be read, to hear original songs about cephalopods be performed, to watch short films about the octopus, and to sing along with "Octopus Garden" and "Drunken Sailor" as part of the Sea-Shantacular.
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It was a wonderful and magical literary event for most of the night. Toward the end, one of the performers (with her "impassioned speech") attempted to derail this all-ages event with a "speech" that was overly tangential, off topic, and rather profane. The profanity didn't fit with the story she was attempting to tell. And there was little to no passion in the telling of it, unless one confuses profanity for passion (which I don't).
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Seattle poet Sierra Nelson was the master of ceremonies and had plenty of students from one of her creative writing classes ("Creatures of the Sea") present to read new work inspired by one of the cephalopods.
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All in all, it was a wonder-filled evening of poetry, film, music, and art with a theme that allowed for as much flexibility as its subject(s).
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