Following Poetry Around

John Ashbery at Brown Thursday, February 26... introduced as " capacious and unpredictable" with a " demotic lexicon" as well as " the most influential poet writing in English." A somewhat holy event, Mr. Ashbery walked slowly across the stage, a very old man now, read from Imperfect Sympathies, but what was most wonderful was his brand new work, sheets of papers in a manila folder from which sprung " self-forgetting trees," and " They were living in America fictitiously," as well as " what the lurching moon taught us." The last line of the night,
" Love me anyway, he said." It was worth the drive to Providence and a sell-out crowd for a free event.

Mark your calendars for March 23rd, a Monday, and what better thing to do on a blue Monday than to come out at 6 P.M. to Perks and Corks ( wine and coffee bar) to hear and share poetry. Featured poets from the Peer/Pier Poetry Project as well as open mic. Read your own work or someone else's but do come to downtown Westerly ( right around the corner from the lovely library) for poetry.