Writers Mic, July 10

Back again after a brief hiatus, with our host Jackie Craven. One can join the group &/or get the link for the monthly Zoom from the Facebook site.

First up on the sign-up sheet was Alan Catlin with a couple pieces from a series of food poems, “Our Lady of the Kitchen Appliances” & “Grandmother Morehead’s Aromatic Kitchen.”  

I was next & read my (rejected) entry to the Writers Read event “My Summer Camp,“ then a more recent piece, an observation of an encounter at my birdbath, “A True Story.”

Julie Lomoe reprised the piece she “sang” last Thursday, “Old Crone Blues,”  then a piece I saw her do on the Bennington Zoom open mic last night, “My Last Rock Festival?”

One can always count on Scott Morehouse to provide a dose of irreverent & naughty humor; tonight a tale about Lloyd & Flo getting a new refrigerator in 1937, “The Iceman Cometh & Goeth.”  

Susan Carroll Jewell said that she has been trying to write happier poems; tonight she read another of her rejections from Rattle, this a Haibun titled “The Greatest Story Ever Told” was a true tale about her parents turning their house into a restaurant.

Our host, Jackie Craven, read a poem titled “Black Hole” from what she described as her “home repair dilemma poems”.

With a little time left Jackie asked if anyone had another poem to share & Alan Catlin stepped up with “Found Poem in the Twilight Zone (of Nona Fernandez),” a political poem using lines from Fernandez’s novel, The Twilight Zone (2021).   

This is another of the charming Zoom open mics that seem to be thriving with a hard-core of regular readers, but is open to other writers who want to try out their work. It takes place on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, start time 7:30PM EDT — one can find the link at the Writers Mic Facebook Group page.