Annie Bloom's Books welcomes local poets Mary Mullen, Melody Wilson, Merna Dyer Skinner for an in-store reading from their new collections. Mary Mullen's second collection of poems, A Thousand Cabbages, spans two oceans and decades of courage and introspection. Melody Wilson's Spineless: Memoir in Invertebrates explores the relationship between the hand and the small creature held in the hand, between the aquarium wall and the being on the other side. Merna Dyer Skinner's A Brief History of Two Aprons is honest, engaging and demonstrates the past can be a place troubled with questions.
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