Ruminating Poet Press

Poetry Co-Op Open Mic at the Water Witch Tiki Bar was great last night. Thirteen poets read, including a couple for their first time at an open mic.

Poets in alphabetical order: Amy, Anthony, Beau, Carri, Claribel, Darriea, Eli, Kristin, Lila, Lucy, Marc, Naomi and Trinity.

We played a poetry game called "Did You Ever" - those three words are the prompt and the first words. Everyone got 3x5 cards and a pen, added their own short lines, and I read all the poems at the end - a community memory and reflection.

Thanks to Darriea for taking the picture again.

LISTENING TO THE SURVIVORS - Just completed reviewing the proof copy and getting it back to the printers. It looks great! Expecting delivery within the week.
MORE INFO TO COME!

Two open mics coming up this week.

On Tuesday I'll be at Tongue: Open Mouth and Music Show at 6:30 at the Sentient Bean. I plan to read two poems honoring Charles Bukowski and Socrates.

Two open mics coming up this week.
On Monday I'll be at the Poetry Co-Op Open Mic at 6:30 at the Water Witch Tiki Bar. I plan to bring a new poetry game.

My recent book, Talking to the Machines and Other Poems, included a series of poems inspired by the experience with long COVID by many survivors of the pandemic. After much discussion of possible ways to record these poems, I decided instead to turn them into a one act play. The play is at the printers, and will soon be the first of my works available exclusively from Ruminating Poet Press, my independent author venture.

More to come shortly!