Monday, January 15, 2018




----Reports------------

---The Friost Hoot this past tuesday was fun....
    Grey Court Poets were the feature, and there was still time for the open mic.
    There were a few tribtes to Mark Schorr,.
    I shoulda taken more notes.....Tom Wylie sets a good example as correspondent..



I have a report on Saturday's Powow reading from Tom Wylie, who also
   popped up for the first time at the Frost Hoot....
Due to the freezing water forecast, I chickened out, but Tom made it:

---- Tom says:---------------------------------------------------------------
Funny man poet Chris O'Carrroll  enthralled us with a dozen 
or more poems of an eclectic nature.  But all very funny!! 
 He began  with "again today," a sad yet humorous vignette about 
his mother's dementia, and his dealing with her complete inability to
 recognize him "again."  Then on to "Burn this Poem," 
"My Pussy Hat," "Father Willy," and a series of one liners in
 "Resolutions," on how to prepare himself for 2018.
   Really, a very poetic and entertaining reading.

And, he will be guest poet for the Haverhill River Bards on Friday, April 6th

David Davis, Poet in Residence at the Joppa Flats Audubon 
Center, read all of his short poems in his recently published 
"Joy Poems," after telling us it takes 18 minutes to read the book. 
 But each was slowly and beautifully delivered as he described his main
 companion, "Joy," as she accompanied him on his daily activities with 
a constant reminder to allow each day to have 5 full minutes of joy.
  Not 4:40, or 2:39, but a full 5 minutes.  Each short poem was 
in some small way connected to this goal, and part of his 20 year struggle 
with living and being treated for prostrate cancer. 
 Davis has a warm and inviting reading voice that filled the 
room with poetic enjoyment.
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Thanks, Tom!



A reminder:

    The Robert Frost Poetry Prize is still in play, with a deadline of March 15, 2018.
   details are all here:







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