Mark your October Calendar! Carolyn Agee will be poetrynight’s Featured Poet on 8 October 2018! Show starts 7 p.m. at the Alternative Library, 519 Maple St., Bellingham, WA.
Carolyn Agee is an author, actress and spoken word performer living on the Puget Sound.
Her books include “Drowning Ophelia” (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2017) and “Ever Silence Menacing” (Mount Analogue— Political Pamphlet Series, 2016). Her work has also been included in numerous journals and anthologies.
As a classically trained actress, Ms. Agee has appeared in many film and stage roles including Benvolio in “Romeo & Juliet”, Fortinbras in “Hamlet” and originating the role of Portia in “In Juliet’s Garden”. She has lead Long-Form Improv workshops and has studied The Alexander Technique with Lauri Blouke Kain. Most recently, her voice-acting can be heard in the “Find Your Frame - Extended Version” feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
When she isn’t suffering from existential depression, she enjoys petrichor, unknown forest trails and intimate gatherings of kindred spirits.
Website: http://www.carolynagee.com
MONARCHY by Carolyn Agee
Evening wraps itself around me like a bolt of indigo silk, a crisp breeze teasing through the boxwoods. Two men walk abreast on the pavement at an eyes on-cell-phone pace. My step, too, unabated-- I will not accede to cedar shavings and splinter my sandal shod feet-- ever onward toward the inexorable collision, until I speak a demure, “excuse me”. As I hear the epithet under your breath, I wonder if I am the first woman not to defer and lift your train in your wake.
[Excerpted from Drowning Ophelia (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2017). ©2016 Carolyn Agee ]