Please enjoy today’s selection: “Requiem” by Pam Crow, which appears in Of Course, I’m a Feminist!

Requiem

~ for Nikki Elias

He kicked the door in.

let her name be blessed

There was a restraining order.

let her name be praised

There was a stalking order.

let her name be glorified

There was extra security at the school.

let her name be lifted up

Her two girls there watching.

let her name be graced in beauty

He shot her with an arrow and a gun.

let her name ascend in joy

She was buried under a freezing rain.

let her name ascend in joy

He shot her with an arrow and a gun.

let her name be graced in beauty

Her two girls there watching.

let her name be lifted up

There was extra security at the school.

let her name be glorified

There was a stalking order.

let her name be praised

There was a restraining order.

let her name be blessed

He kicked the door in.

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Please enjoy today’s selection: “Before They Reheat the Rod” by Penelope Scambly Schott, which appears in Of Course, I’m a Feminist!

Before They Reheat the Rod

In the ancient city, they heated iron rods
and blinded all the daughters.

Then they told the daughters Every man
is brave and beautiful.

In that city, they blessed the girls’ hands
and set them to spin in the dark.

Behind bronze gates, the daughters sang
the hymns almost as instructed,

but they sang in a language understood
only by birds of prey.

Listen. The wings of the blind daughters
summoned a wild sirocco wind

so that sand dunes buried the ancient city.
What endures now is the song.

Do you know it?
Whisper the words in your daughter’s ear.

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Saturday, March 5, 2016
7:00-9:00 pm

Of Course, I’m a Feminist!

at

Tsunami Books
2585 Willamette Street,
Eugene, Oregon 97431

A Reading in Celebration of National Women’s Month
(Plus Open-Mic follwing the feature)

Featured readers include:
Shawn Aveningo, Linda Ferguson, Tricia Knoll, Elise Kuechle, Carter McKenzie and Sharon Wood Wortman

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.

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