Open Mic at Phoenix Books in Burlington

For the second time in as many years I crossed the state for the opportunity to share some of my poetry with Burlington appreciators—and my fellow Poetry Society of Vermont (PSOV) members—at an open mic held at Phoenix Books on Saturday, April 23.

The energy, size of the crowd, and number of poets rhyming (like Sam Hewitt, Geoff's nephew) were all good last year, so I thought I'd give it another try.

In the first round, I read from my recent poems (all searchable at this blog):

• "That Green Roof" life (4.17.16)
• "Life's a Country Song" life (3.11.16)
• "Impossible Dreams" life (3.11.16)
• "A Little Elf" life (3.11.16)
• "Fasten Your Belt" love (2.5.16)
• "You Beat Beatrice and Laura" love (2.1.16)
• "Greatest Unsolved Mystery" love (1.23.16)

For the second round, I read:

• "It Goes On" life (9.30.14)
• "This Third Thing" love (2004)
• "Did You Know" love (2003)

The first poem in the second round I read: 1) because we had a poetess with the last name Frost reciting with us; 2) I'd forgotten to read it at the Northeast Storytellers Robert Frost memorial event the week before; and, 3) I'd submitted the poem to PSOV's The Mountain Troubadour last year (without luck). 

The last two I read as examples of my sentence poems.