Two readings today, which is pretty good for a Sunday.

At Elliott Bay Book Company, we have Myrna Capp and Kristin Capp. They will be reading from Keeping the Embers Alive. It’s a book of photographs and interviews and all sorts of things like that about the musicians of Zimbabwe.

Later this afternoon, up at Third Place Books, there’ll be a party in celebration of Spindrift. Spindrift is the Shoreline Community College Art and Literary Journal. There will be an open mic in addition to the celebration. celebrates a new issue’s release with an open mic. There will be refreshments, too.

Here is a poem from Spindrift’s website:

Wedding Dress
by Jerimiah Rice

Rogue demons haunt the dress you wore
On a wedding night
Painfully clear in your memory
The day “I do” became the ultimate pitch
And lips with a kiss, transparent
Slipped clean through
All the jagged smiles like ripped canvas now
Hushed, blotted out by a soft spring rain
That dress, staring through button eyes,
Beady and wretched
Trying with infinite might to force a tear,
But tears wash away on days like this
And sad memories are nothing more than a
Tattered cloth with faded colors
Forgotten by time and replaced

Full readings calendar, including the next week or so, here.