JUDITH ROCHE
Wednesday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m.

A poet who has read at Elliott Bay since the early days of readings here, Judith Roche makes this welcome return to our stage to read from her newest collection, Wisdom of the Body (Seattle's Black Heron Press). A meditation in poetry on 'the physicality of all things: our bodies and how they change, the salmon and their life cycle, trees, flowers, the earth, everything caught in the mystery of time,' some of the poems in Wisdom of the Body were produced as a City of Seattle public art project. There are also the poems of "Navigating the Night" which serve as a libretto for a musical piece by noted Seattle composer Janet Gitech. Judith Roche is a fellow of the Black Earth Institute and Literary Arts Director Emeritus at One Reel (after over twenty years of directing Bumbershoot's literary programming). She is also the author of Myrrh/My Life as a Screamer, and co-editor, with Meg McHutchison, of the American Book Award-winning anthology, First Fish: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific.

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