Stormy Sunday

Well, congratulations are in order for our resident poet and dear friend, Peter Covino, who read this afternoon while the rain slashed the windows and the surf built below us. Just brought the house down. I hope he sold all his books. For a poetry reading there were many, many people there, though the free chocolate and wine helped, no doubt. Mairead Byrne was pretty wonderful, too. It was a heartening thing to do on a rainy Sunday, listening to words, words, words. Oh, for you fans of him, or to simply expand your thinking and your heart, go hear the master himself, John Ashbery, read at Brown's Salomon Center this Thursday at 7:30 P.M.

" What's this talk about not understanding!
you're just a person who refuses to see."
-- Gary Snyder from "Amitabha's Vow"