Year���s First Last Sunday Poetry Reading

Only a short note this time for another local tradition continuing into the new year, in this case the Bloomington Writers Guild-sponsored Last Sunday Poetry Reading which came about as scheduled at the County Convention Center between 3 and 5 p.m.�� The headline poets were Patsy Rahn and Dr. Abegunde, both multiply-published local poets who have also been featured before, and who were followed by nine of ten of us (for this month anyway) ���lesser lights��� at the open mike session.�� Mine were five short vampire poems that were published in two sets in November���s BLOODBOND (cf. November 15), with my noting that, for better or worse, the three in Set 1 tended to address philosophical/theoretical issues (for example, one discussing the use of breath mints to avoid repelling one���s potential victim) while the two in Set 2 were concerned more with vampirism as a practice.

The session was pleasant and the poems received well.�� Upcoming events were also announced, including next week���s First Sunday Prose Reading with more or less the same set up and, later that week, February���s edition in the Fountain Square Poetry series.