Words in the Garden with Melody Gee and Jordan McQueen

“Words in the Garden” is a weekly literary reading series from the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) and the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library.  Every Wednesday through the summer at 4:30 pm, a local and/or visiting WCDH writer-in-residence will present a reading and Q&A under the tent in the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library Garden at 188 Spring Street (south of the Carnegie Library Gardens Building). The readings are free and open to all. Wednesday, August 4, will feature writers-in-residence Melody Gee and Jordan McQueen.

Melody S. Geeis a poet and essayist based in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the author of two poetry collections, “The Dead in Daylight” (2016, Cooper Dillon Books) and “Each Crumbling House,” winner of the 2010 Perugia Poetry Prize. Her essays on faith, conversion, and immigration appear in "Commonweal Magazine,” “Blood Orange Review,” “Barnstorm Literary Review,” and other journals. A Kundiman poetry and fiction fellow, she…