In conversations had and overheard, the consensus seems to be: this was the best yet! Yesterday’s installment of the Regional Poet’s quarterly event featured joy and sorrow, young and old, known and emerging.
Josh and Elena Berman provided music in past readings, over zoom, and were even more engaging in person.
And just the right number of people mentioned how good it was to be in person again! And indeed it was. Several readers helped us all be present for Ukraine and this will be amplified on April 9, 2 p.m. with an outdoor, open reading at the 4th and Lincoln Pocket Park in Loveland honoring Ukraine, peace, and freedom.
In the open mic portion of the afternoon, Kristy Nowak was a standout for me with her poem about a landscaping consultation gone spiritual. It was really fun to have two Clarks (Roger and BJ) on the docket and a special treat to have Roger’s sister to make it a threesome. Stalwart voices like Sandra McGarry’s balanced with new comers (at least to these readings) like Mark Sanchez.
My 8-year-old
granddaughter’s impression (this was the first poetry reading she ever attended)
was that it was hard to choose favorites (she is such a wise child!), but she did like Emily Ramos’s piece
about the outhouse driver. Me too: that was one of the joy poems and well
written. I leave you, sadly but appropriately, with a link
to one of the sorrow poems, read by Lisa Zimmerman, Sara Teasdale’s poem: “Spring in the Time of War.”
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