We followed our first poetry reading with our first book reading. I’m saying firsts in hopes of more to come, and it does look like I’ve lined up a classmate, who has since graduation become a very well respected author, to read next week. This week I had a pal of mine, Anne Kveta Haak, read her self published memoir “Petals & Poustice,” which she crafted in a magically realistic manner. Anne enjoys words and fun poetic devices and it came across in the reading. In many ways her work was even better heard than read. We had a smaller group, maybe because it was too early on a Monday and many are still working remotely. The more intimate group allowed more sharing perhaps, as the reading stimulated a discussion of our family histories, our feelings about them, how the courage of our immigrant families might be inspiration and information as to how to handle our current Corona Challenge. It was also just nice to see a bunch of people and to talk about something other than the news.
March 23 – Memories of a Memoir
