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Launch Party for the Tarot Poetry Anthology
August 12, 2015 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Launch Party for Minor Arcana’s Tarot Poetry Anthology will be held: Wednesday, August 26 at 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle 98122
Join Minor Arcana Press for a celebration of its second collection of ekphrastic poetry, Arcana: The Tarot Poetry Anthology. Edited by scholar and Tarot expert Marjorie Jensen, Arcana is the first ever multi-contributor poetry anthology about the Tarot.
The book includes original verse by fifty contemporary writers and Tarot readers from around the world, as well as illustrations from Seattle artist Siolo Thomson’s Linestrider Tarot.
The seventy-eight cards of the Tarot mean many things to many people—a game, a fortune telling oracle, a powerful spiritual guide. Arcana: The Tarot Poetry Anthology celebrates the Tarot as muse: enchanting, inspiring, and empowering.
The launch event will feature Tarot readings from 6–7 p.m., then readings from Arcana‘s local contributors, including Joanne Clarkson, Amy Schrader, Sierra Nelson, Evan J. Peterson, and Tony Rella. Jensen will also read her work and talk about the genesis of the book.
Joanne Clarkson’s poem is entitled: The Nine of Cups (which is the ‘wish card’ and her psychic grandmother’s favorite card in the deck, a message of highest hope).