Words@Webster’s: Marian Dornell, featured reader

Oprah Winfrey states upon the opening of the new African-American Museum that it serves to help Americans to see where we’ve been, where we are, and where we are going as a nation.

In that same vein Marian Cannon Dornell’s chapbook, Unicorn in Captivity invites each reader to walk in her narrators’ shoes – whether it is the eighteenth-century enslaved woman Naomi speaking to us from her “hush-hush garden” where she grows herbs to “protect her from her nighttime master” or Elam Breitweist, an unlikely Amish man, an ally in the struggle for freedom during the time of the Fugitive Slave Laws, or even the poet herself looking back on the moments of racial oppression in her own life the reader is always invited to consider his or her role in determining where America is, where she has been, and, most importantly, what choices will the reader make today to be an ally in the ongoing struggle for justice in America.

Open Mic to follow.