Writer’s Mic, October 12

Jackie Craven is the host of this monthly Zoom open mic. Tonight only 5 readers, so she tacked on a bonus round, that a couple of us took up.

I read a new poem, “Solevo,” which is also the name of an Italian restaurant on Phila St. in Saratoga Springs, NY, then a poem titled “John Lennon” for his birthday which was Sunday.

Susan Jewell is a persistent writer of ekphrastic poems & read “Cacophony of Small Things” & shared the screen image for the August Rattle ekphrastic challenge that her poem was based on, then another also submitted “Thursday Morning.”

Scott Morehouse gave a humorous theatrical performance as usual of another romantic vignette “Palm Sunday Ecologue” a scandalous encounter at the Baptist Church,  — “a hedonist in need of an anti-histamine.” 

Greg Manzi was new to this group & easily fit in, he read from his book

We lived like Kings, by G.M. Manzi published by Raw Earth Ink, a short vignette about “Holding the Door for an Elderly Veteran,” & a piece titled “In the Company of Gods, Venus & Jupiter.”

Jackie Craven read a couple short prose poems about home repairs, “Bad Boiler,” & “Ghost Flushes,” sounding very close to home. Then, since we were finishing early, Jackie asked if there were any takers for a 2nd round, most declined, but I decided to read one of my poem cards about baseball titled “Dusty Baker” & Greg Manzi read an amusing piece about talking & smoking in bed with a girlfriend, “Of Stupid Grins & Stevie Ray Vaughn."

If you want to join us on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 7:30PM you can find the link on the Writer’s Mic Facebook page. Hope to see you there/here.