Artist Spotlight: Minnie Collins
EchoX is honored to partner with one of our first directory participants, the African-American Writers’ Alliance (AAWA), to present the following series of poetry and prose from a collective of writers. Over the course of the next few Wednesdays, we will share poetry and prose from one of these incredibly talented writers. This Wednesday we are proud to share the work of Minnie Collins.
Learn more about the work that AAWA does and support their writing at http://www.aawa-seattle.org/.
Spellbinders
Minnie Collins
Drifting on street light rhythms
Whispering questions: What? How? Why? How long?
Bonding friend and foe,
Finding joy and magic:
Four-feet layer cakes with two-inch crystal frostings
Cool-whipped topped laurels
Whisked whites on meringue topped hydrangeas
Ribbon candy, rainbow sparkle ice, and lemon sorbet ponds;
Dunes for snowboarders, inner tubers, and skiers;
Evergreen canopies sheltering seeds for scurrying footprints
Replenishing thirsty tubers longing for sun.
Nature’s spellbinders.
© Minnie Collins
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Minnie A. Collins, award-winning English professor Emerita, is the author of The Purple Wash (Classic Day 2012), Palm Power: Hearts in Harmony (Vert Volta Design 2018), Seattle’s Historic Liberty Bank Building Apartments’ Commemorative Plaques (2019), and “Troubled Waters” (YouTube Mahogany Project 2020). She is published in Raven Chronicles, Emerald Reflections, Fly to the Assemblies! Seattle and the Rise of the Resistance, Voices That Matter, Threads, WASCC Humanities Association’s Crosscurrents, Blackpast.org. Avocet-A Journal of Nature Poetry, South Seattle Emerald online, and is an artist with Seattle’s 4Culture’s Touring Arts Roster (TAR). Her books are available at Third Place Books and the Seattle Public Library.
Her writing journey includes journaling, poetry, short stories, essays, script writing, readings at galleries, bookstores, libraries, colleges, museums, and meaningful dialogues. Compassion for nature and equity is her mantra.
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