Sunday, I read with a wonderful line up of readers at the Parallax Space that is currently hosting the show UNL Womanhouse: The House That Feminism Built.

The gallery included an actual house sewn from women’s garments that provoked, for me at least, questions about what it means to be female in today’s culture.

There couldn’t have been a better space to celebrate Sally Deskins’ fantastic book Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2011 and blog. Victoria Hoyt introduced and described the project of Womanhouse and Sally offered the background on the necessity of LFF and the response it has received since it’s beginning, early in 2011. Poets and readers included current contributors to her book and blog, and likely, future ones as well, from the Omaha and Lincoln Area, such as Natasha Kessler who co-edits Strange Machine and lincolnites like Lucy Adkins and Marjorie Saiser. Check out Rex Walton’s additional photos for some of the other fantastic featured readers.

I read “The Purse” featured in LFF, “The Widow” and “This Could Be You: Tee-shirt” included in the Womanhouse book, and two poems from my forthcoming chapbook SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER.

What a great way to spend a Sunday!