Please to present Please Don’t Tickle the Salamander’s Belly last night at The Reading Series. Thanks to Geoffrey Bates for the gorgeous cover design. The In/Words crew hand-stitched it and laid red thread through the pages in a sweet touch. Thanks to editor Drew, Geoffrey, Sanita and Jennifer for making this chapbook happen. If you are curious about how the poems relate to the French source text, contact me and I can get you a sample blurb.
For the launch all the photos by hubby are here but here’re a few:
Mike Caesar opening with his articulate poems. I can’t repeat back verbatim. It’s in the placement, setup, choice of words and the turns. A poem about eyelids, another about the vocabulary of wine. Got a wave of goosebumps during something in his third poem. Look forward to him having a book one day.
Ah here I am when I am not looking entirely goofy. The sequinned jacket never fails to dazzle at least.
I read from the radish, and the Shreekin Violet chapbook of fictional reviews, and the newest of course. Check out Click Here tomorrow morning 8-9am or on playback after to hear the interview on CHUO yesterday.
Ambiant music by Scary Bear Soundtrack.
Themed prizes including my chapbook, pear(l)’s soap, and piri piri spice.
Smaller open mic than usual, apparently. It sometimes goes to 1am but it wrapped at 11pm. It was a full house tho with friendly faces and full of people who gave encouraging words.
In the open mic was a biology song to rebut the vacuity of love pop songs by Greg (Craig) that gets into the spleen and how eyes function was apt, funny and fun.
Another highlight of Jenny and Jeremy acting out the play in the canoe about Columbus. That makes it live dinner theatre
Dec 4 is the In/Words issue 15.1 launch at Pressed Cafe. 15 years. Good show.
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