The last one of 2025, with 4 of the regulars, minus my co-host, Nancy Klepsch.
I started off the sign-up list with a new poem inspired by my reading of a new translation (by Mark Polizzotti) of André Breton’s novel Nadja, “The Blue Wind” part of my series of witches poems; then a holiday piece & love poem to my mother, “Christmas 1945.”
Karen Fabiane has been a long-time supporter of this open mic, showed up today looking for cake — that was last month when she was also here, but she had poems to share & that’s why we were/are here. She had had printer problems in printing our her poems & the lighting in this space was less than optimal, so Sally Rhoades (up next) loaned Karen her cellphone flashlight to read “Pavilion,” an intricate swirl of words; then a memory poem of artist friends, “Someone.”
Sally was next to read from her notebook, a piece written on the train to NYC from Albany, a letter to Oklahoma poet Ken Hada, “Sunrise,” then a descriptive companion piece also written on the train, “The Sun is Setting.”
Both of the pieces that David Gonsalves read were untitled, the first, on the hieroglyphics of Winter images, the second of the images of hands on a heavy overcoat.
Collar Works is a community arts organization based in Troy & has graciously invited 2nd Sunday @ 2: Poetry + Prose to use their space at 50 4th Street each month. Please join us & share your written word each 2nd Sunday @ 2PM. Free!
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