Posts Tagged ‘World Poetry Day’
Well I don’t know if everyone, reader or listener, was necessarily a signed-up member of the Bloomington Writers Guild — poets can turn up in all kinds of places! — but credit, at least, for the organization goes to Guild Chair April Ridge. As well as kudos to The Monroe, a frighteningly large apartment complex on Bloomington’s east side, for hosting the event.
Plus nice snacks too.
The call had gone out a month before from April: [W]ould you like to read at the World Poetry Day Open Mic at the Monroe on 3/21/24? There’s a 10 minute spot with your name on it if you want it! And Tony or I can give you a ride to and back as well. Tony being Writers Guild past officer and all around firebrand Tony Brewer who also led off and MCd the event. And some twenty-two poets, give or take, took the bait — for the reading, that is, if not for the ride — to fill three hours of five and ten minute individual sessions.
And so, surprisingly, it came off last night only about five minutes out from the precise 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. listed schedule, granted with a few blank spots written in that allowed some adjustment. Most poets read five minutes, though with me one of eight tagged for ten minute sessions. So, natch, I read horror poetry, “vampire and vampire adjacent,” cut down from a reading I’d done last Halloween-ish for “Last Sunday Poetry” (cf. October 29), at roughly half-way through the listed lineup.
It seemed to go over well, as did the whole event!
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