Yesterday at Poetry: The Art of Words

Yesterday, Girlfriend and I headed down to the Plymouth Center for the Arts and it's monthly venue Poetry: The Art of Words to see my colleague Jason Wright of Oddball Magazine, who debuted his first poetry collection A Letter to The World.

His best reading yet.

Also reading, appropriately enough, was Mignon Ariel King, who, published Jason's full-length collection through her press, the ironically named Tell-Tale Chapbooks. She read a selection of her upcoming collection, a poetic primer of Boston based on the alphabet and the MBTA. The latter could use the publicity this this collection could generate.

Mignon uses my photos for her author photos. This won't be one of them. I'll do better!

Mignon also has a new memoir from Hidden Charm Press, a memoir entitled Dropping the Mask: non-Academic reflections of a womanist writer, available if you visit Amazon or drop the money at one of her readings (one of which will hopefully be at Stone Soup Poetry later this year).

After both features, Jason, his ride, Oddball Art Director TJ Edson and I took a break outside to look at Plymouth Rock, which was only minutes walking distance form the Center. My first time seeing it, too!

I really thought you could sit on it!

These looks were planned, but it's not much different from how we interact in real life.

The last two photos were by TJ, newly christened Poet Roadie!

We salute you!