In honor of national poetry month, River City Books sponsored an open-mic poetry night last night at the Contented Cow. (The Raven has more in his blog post, Poetry Gods Are Swooning.) Among the people reading their poems were my daughter, Gilly Wigley (left center) and Andrea Lovoll. Click the photos to enlarge and see the poetry album for 15 more.
There was another poetry reading in town last night:
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Who woulda thunk? Poetry permeates rural MN!
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Yep, it was a terrific night for poetry fans in Northfield. If you didn’t make it to open-mike poetry night — thanks for your great coverage, Griff — I have added the first of an expected three (short) audio file to RCBlog:
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Enjoy.
Cool… audio poetry reading on two different blogs, River City Books and Monkey See, Monkey Read. You guys rock!
And I see Tiny’s Dogs is having a poetry reading this week. Poetry. The new porn!
The gratification continues, Griff. I have added more audio to a post that includes links to the NAG poetry event this week as well as news about a new poetry book club in town.
Plus, my sources tell me negotiations are under way for another open-mike poetry night at The Cow. It was so popular the masses want more.
Everybody’s a poet — don’t you know it?
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To follow up my tantalizing earlier post on this topic — I know a lot of folks have been up nights waiting — River City Books and The Cow are, in fact, teaming again on another Open-Mike Poetry Night later this month.
Hopefully, Gilly and others will again take the stage and read from their fine work.