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Colleen McElroy Reads at Columbia City Gallery

March 27, 2016
Splabman
Blood MemoryWho: Colleen McElroy
What:
 Reading from Blood Memory
Where: Columbia City Gallery
4864 Rainier Ave S, Seattle WA 98118

When: April 8th, 7 PM. (RSVP please! ((206) 321-5219 or cherelouoma@gmail.com)

Blood Memory, Colleen J. McElroy’s collection of narrative poetry, emerges from deep seated memories with enormous emotion. Through the rhythms and musicality unique to McElroy’s voice, it portrays an extended family, a complex culture spanning several decades, multiple victories and failures, and a single brilliant soul that frames the poems. Dedicated to McElroy’s mother, the book is universal in its scope, inescapable in its earthy particularity. McElroy writes, “I am the last female of a family/ of women who wove the fabric/ of stories into doilies and slip covers…/” Blood Memory offers consummate storytelling and unforgettable poetry capturing a place and time gone forever. And as an evolving history, the poetry has a cinematic quality, large and intimate and at the same time, characters utterly vivid. Brooklyn Magazine highlights this volume on its 2016 must read list.

Colleen McElroy

Colleen McElroy

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