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" We are reliving old lives Gravity is gravity but what is opposed that transforms us? Dozing off it is visions of blackberries Thorns of Discovery Get away the fit seems gone We are lying on a park lawn under a tree at 3am reaching over cliff-like to feel for a part to steal warp wrap up get lost in No fair It's all open ended stars across the cloudy sky burning on or burning out and falling" Zan Agzigian Zan Agzigian Day: (509) 232-0534; Publications: Stamen and Whirlwind BIO: Zan was born Sandra Jean Deery in Philadelphia, PA, and moved to the Northwest in 1986. In 1989, she borrowed her mother's maiden name as her nom de plume. She has been in collaboration with Bitterroot Salish poet, Victor A. Charlo, co-writing contemporary Native American plays since 1990. Together, they have co-written, directed and produced a number of plays; The July: The Whiskey Experience and L.A. Christmas Trees are the most recent. Zan has devoted many years to arts organizing, and has received grants for fiction, plays, and poetry. Her short story, "White Bees of Winter," was published in the winter of 2005 in a special First Fiction issue of the Gilcrease Museum's publication, Gilcrease Journal. She lives in Spokane, WA. and works at the BBB Serving Eastern Washington, North Idaho & Montana as Communications Director/Lead Fraud Investigator. She regularly reads throughout the NW and performs poetry with musicians under the guise of Mercury Rising. Most current work is a live spoken word performance on Spokane Public Radio's SOUNDSPACE, hosted by Norvel Trosst, March 2, 2008. You can hear the podcast at: kpbx.org/programs/MercRising.htm |
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