Thanks for the welcome. Sometimes it seems no one pays attention, unless
someone comes up afterward, to comment, I have no concept of how a reading
went.
I was amazed with the audience at Poets Against War reading, University of
Baltimore.
The readers (around thirty) were given the utmost respect. It was a good
experience, over one hundred poets in attendance. - deborah
Hi deborah,
Welcome aboard.
I don't care for or do sonnets, so nothing for me on that, but I enjoyed
your prologue (?). I know the scene well - pre-reading your own poems while
the person behind the mike is doing theirs - no-one seeming to really
listen.
Don't forget the boozy buggers down the back drinking Guiness and beer and
having a conversation loudly while you read.
Cheers,
Frank
Want poetry? Try my Tales of Faust web page at http://tales-of-faust.com/ .
Enjoy.
>
> Everyone says, hello.
>
> She fumbles through papers, trips on the leg of her folding chair, noise
> echoes thunderously, suddenly stops - followed by an exaggerated silence.
>
> She takes the podium and begins a short, yet boring account of her poem.
>
> One poet is asleep, in the front row, one is glaring, as if her
clumsiness
> was a direct and personal insult. Another poet is smiling; reading his
own
> poetry, others are coughing, scuffing their feet, rattling papers and
> laughing nervously, however, silently.
>
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