IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND WHAT IS SET FORTH THEREIN

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

POETRY IS COMING / TO THE AWP - Day Two




Friday night found Rod Smith and his begging bowl cornered in the Science and Nature section of Bridge Street Books. Like children following the Pied Piper, we poetry people followed the sound of Rod's gong show over to Bridge Street Books for yet another poetry extravaganza. From Charles Alexander to Rosmarie Waldrop (we didn't have a "Z" poet as Zapruder had read the night before) we alphabetically celebrated and sang ourselves. (Meanwhile, uptown at Busboys & Poets, some out-of-town poet was stealing the Life-Sized cutout Langston Hughes B&P had ordered up to brighten the festivities. -- A whole new meaning to Looking for Langston.)