Kapil Reading

I really enjoyed Kapil's reading. When she first came on the stage, she described our State (Michigana) as a dark state like she is in right now. She read from her book Humanimal: A project for Future Children. There was one similarity that stuck out to me with this book and the Incubation: A Space for Monsters. She uses a lot of color in the books to describe things, like colors pink and red. As she continued reading I never thought that somethings that were not related to each other could be related to each other.

The way she read her book really interested me. When there was something in the text, she would increase her voice level either higher or lower to give it some drama and effect. In her stories she uses a lot of life experiences. She talks about her family which includes the stories when she is growing up. She said that her father had died at age 50 because he was poor and from malnutrition. She also did something for National Geographic. They filmed the wolf girl with her in it. She wrote about it in this book. She ended by giving advice for writing. She told everyone that when you are the moment of writing, and you lift your pen from the page there is a vertical moment, and things come to mind.