2nd Sunday @ 2 — Poetry + Prose, June 8

I was the solo co-host this Sunday since Nancy Klepsch was in Albany for the Pride Parade. & it seemed like some of our regulars joined her there or had other places to be on a pleasant (i.e., not raining) Sunday afternoon. In fact, there were as many non-readers as there were poets signed up to read.

First up was Rhonda Rosenheck who read 2 poems from 2015, a poem beginning “I teeter …,” then one written during the Arab Spring & the Occupy movement titled “Seduction.”

Tom Corrado has over 800 individually numbered “Screen Dumps” but this afternoon he read “a chunk” of them strung together from a new chapbook from swimming in happenstance press, particulars, without the number breaks — not that it matters. One can also check out his Blog.

I read 2 poems for the spirit (& reality) of Pride Month, “June 3, 2022” about Allen Ginsberg’s birthday, & “Here I Sit in Solitude,” honoring another great Gay poet, Walt Whitman.

This open mic for poetry + prose is called 2nd Sunday @ 2 which tells you most of what you have to know — the rest is that it is held at Collar Works, an arts collective at a former bank building at 50 4th St., Troy, NY