The History of Spilled Ink
or
How on Some Nights I Stopped Talking and Wrote Something Down
YEAR 4
January 2018
1-26-18, Our three-year anniversary!
22 readers and many listeners [The Simpsons, Joni Gallegos, and Erin Miller]
John Cowgill – “The Great Flight of the Tomahawk” and “The Great Journey”
Mary Rook – “The Marathon of Motherhood”
Joey Hickey – “Critical Introduction” [from “Loves Songs at the End of Our Lives”]
Melissa Schrock – “Leaving, Part 1” and “Leaving, Part 2”
Elizabeth Lacy – “Depression” and “I Wish I could Tell You”
Corih [Cora] Kim – “The Nameless Seed” and “Loneliness”
Lesley Tyson – “Needing Something More,” “Blankness We All Face,” and “Everything I Say is a Lie”
Dan Leahy – “Tree Fort” [Memoir]
Michael Sensale – “An Axe to Grind” [Chapters 1 and 2]
Wills D. Uan [Uanserume] – “Location,” “Welcome to the New Year,” and “Send Me to the Unknown”
Keith Munroe – “Illness”
Ron Nearhood – “The Stage,” “Naveh,” and “I’ve Yet to Sit Beside the Sea”
Rayne – “Did You Hear About That Girl?” and “That Doesn’t Mean”
Steve Konrad – “Lift,” “Outside,” “Stellar,” “Key,” and “Growing Up, Up, and Away”
Gail Williams – “Little Girl Lost” [Memoir]
David Martin – “Memories from Years Ago” and “From Bangladesh to Brooklyn”
Andie Martin – “Sate of Being” and “State of Not Caring”
Megan McDonald – “Wiley E. Coyote,” “Sometimes, a Candle is Just a Candle,” and “In the Carnival of Desire”
Elias Swadener – “Let It Flow”
Roman Stanley – “The Hopping Contest”
Jim Loper – “Baseball Nostalgia – What’s in a Nickname?”
Me – “Wrestling Motivation – Middle School Style” [Memoir]
Spilled Ink Reflections
I Love
I love when Ron Nearhood brings his son, Daniel, when Jim Loper brings his daughter, Olivia, and when David Martin brings his daughter, Andie.
I love when Daniel Nearhood, Olivia Loper, and Andie Martin brave the microphone.
I love how John Cowgill faithfully takes our pictures and is so full of joy each month.
I love getting suggestions for lessons to use in my classroom just be listening.
I love seeing “first timers” become “long timers” after braving the microphone.
I love seeing the group from Poets’ Anonymous support each other.
I love seeing students brave the stage.
I love the diversity of the people and the diversity of their writings/readings.
I love the creativity each month.
I love how Spilled Ink forces me to write something new each month.
I love the honesty and the raw emotions bared and the support provided by all.
I love how supportive we are; building people up instead of tearing down.
I love Dan Verner’s Cat poems.
I love it when Robert Scott’s rage makes Alice Mergler blush.
I love Kathy Moya’s memes.
I love seeing writers try other genres [Gail William’s memoirs].
I love Michael Sensale’s bow tie and his rapping.
I love the support of my family which allows me to do this each month.
I love coffeehouses [Grounds Central Station and Jirani Coffeehouse].
I love how opportunities have been created [Arts’ Alive & In the Company of
Laureates].
I love when I need to use the dictionary while listening to Robert Scott, Cathy Hailey, Kathy Smaltz, Keith Munroe, and Steve Konrad.
I love seeing Belinda Miller braving the elements in her wheelchair.
I love how Ruth Matthews travels all the way from Maryland to read her works.
I love everyone who has every braved the microphone and those that support. them.
I love the fourth Friday of each month.
SPILLED INK GOES INTERNATIONAL!
Dozens Gather for a Night of Literature in Manassas
January 26, 2018Americas, Culture, Health living, Special Edition, World News, 시와 사람, 워싱턴 DC 에서는, 워싱턴 지역사회현황Corih Kim
매월 네번째 금요일 저녁에 열리는 “문학을 이야기 하는 밤”은 멀리 메릴랜드 주에서 부터 온 작가들을 포함해서 대학교 재학중인 학생들, 그리고 미래 작가의 꿈을 가진 어린 초등학생까지 100여명의 시인과 소설가들이 매나사스 시의 가장 중심지라고 할 수 있는 매나사스 역 건너편에 위치한 지라니 찻집에 모였다.
시를 읽고, 자신이 쓰고 있는 소설을 읽어주는 시간은 차의 향을 따라 가끔씩 들려오는 기차의 경적 소리와 함께 추운 겨울 밤을 따뜻하게 데워주었다.
시어머니와 시아버지, 시누이와 함께 온 며느리의 시, 그 안에는 대를 이어 내려온 사랑의 언어들이 녹아 들어 있었고, 갑작스런 사고로 인해 목발을 집고 나온 남자의 삶이 목발에 주렁주렁 달려있었다.
약 3시간의 금요일 밤은 어느새 지나가고 다음을 기약하며 다시 겨울로 돌아가는 그들 발걸음은그 어느때보다도 가볍고 경쾌해 보였다.
필자도 처음 그 자리에 선 사람으로서 두 편의 영시를 소개하면서 많은 박수를 받았다. 동양인으로서 오직 한 사람인 필자는 시를 통해 나를 전달해 주었고, 그들은 눈빛과 박수로 나를 격려해 주었으며, 난 어느새 그들과 함께 섞여 꽁꽁 얼어붙은 겨울밤을 따뜻하게 녹이고 있었다.
다시한번 매나사스시가 버지니아 주와 메릴랜드 주의 다리 역할을 담당한다는 느낌을 지울 수 없었다. 하나의 언어로 하나되는 도시, 여러 사람들의 생각과 감정이 하나의 언어로 전달되는 장소로서 말이다.
The nameless seed
written by Corih Kim
I didn’t know your name
Even the moment We met
I didn’t ask for your address
I didn’t ask for family history
Comfortably, the moment we met
I thought of you as my friend
You are at the end of my fingertips
Was unreachable, unattainable
Titillating kind of an existence
Without a single green field for you to lie
As I couldn’t stay still
You and I, both of us are travelers
Our souls guided by Zephyr
I’m also nameless to you
You never asked me for my name…
Stirring the Ink
The PWC library system has asked us, the Poet Laureate Circle, to do a poetry workshop at each of the libraries during 2018. I believe there are 11 libraries in PWC. They will have an “open mic” at each event, and their hope would be that the participants could then share a piece at Spilled Ink.
Month | Library | Day/Date/Time | Presenter(s) |
May 2018 | Montclair Community Library | Wednesday, 5/16, 7:30 p.m. | Tom Basham |
June 2018 | Central Community Library | Monday, 6/4, 7:30 | Dan Verner |
June 2018 | Chinn Park Regional Library | Friday, 6/15, 3:00 | Antonia Kilday & Michael Sensale |
July 2018 | Bull Run Regional Library | Thursday, 7/5, 7:00 | Kitra M. Davis and Amber |
August 2018 | Nokesville Neighborhood Library | Thursday, 8/23, 5;00 | Kathy Smaltz |
September 2018 | Haymarket Gainesville Community Library | Thursday, 9/27, 6:00 | Scott Howard & Robert Scott |
October 2018 | Potomac Community Library | Saturday, 10/20, 2:00 | Nick Hale & Poets Anonymous |
November 2018 | Independent Hill Neighborhood Library | Thursday, 12/6, 5:30 | Caitlin Sarah Rausch & Alice Mergler |
December 2018 | Lake Ridge Neighborhood Library | Tuesday, 12/11, 6:00 | Antonia Kilday & John Dutton |
January 2019 | Dumfries Neighborhood Library | Wednesday, 1/16, 5:30 p.m. | John Dutton |
February 2019 | Dale City Neighborhood Library | Monday, 2/25, 6:00 | Bennie Herron |
February 2018
2-23-18
22 readers and many listeners [Ashley Smith and Erin Miller]
Elizabeth Lacy - “Insomniac’s Plea,” “I Read the News,” and “Waiting for Spring”
Melissa Schrock - “Conception”
Ruth Matthews – “Grief” and “Joy”
Lexa Wood – “You are Perfect, and You are Mine”
Nicole Martinez Fitch – “Pregnancy”
E’loise Wallace – “Simplest Things” and “Hold On, Steady Does It, Don’t Let Go”
Seeymoore Bell – “Mother Wound” and “King and Queen”
[HE JUST STOPPED FOR COFFEE AND STAYED! J]
Kimberly Ray – “Let’s Go for a Walk” and “Lockdown”
Zach Tamer – “Loss and Grief,” “You are the Sunset,” Sugar and Heat,” “Ode to Shel [Silverstein],” and “Synapses”
Artik – “Memories of a Big O’ Woman” and “Lady Naivete”
Steve Konrad – “Off on a Tangent,” “Fairy Tale,” and “Know”
Dan Leahy – “Sight and Salutation”
Ron Nearhood – “Eight Minutes to Sundown”
Andie Martin – “Generation Z Rises Up”
David Martin – “Abraham Lincoln” and “In Future Years”
Michael Sensale – “Eternal Revolution”
John Cowgill – “The Good Samaritan – The Author, the Poet, and the Spilled Ink Man,” and “Jenny and Pete”
Lesley Tyson – “From the Junk Drawer,” “Inches from the End,” and “Nothing between Blues”
Gail Williams – “A Difficult Project”
Keith Munroe – “Never Cast Aside These Desperate Words of Poetry”
Wills D. Uan – “Glow with the Flow,” “Getting Ahead,” “Hero’s Monologue”
Me – “I Love” [Reflections on three years of Spilled Ink]
March 2018
3-23-18
21 readers! I know there was four people who came just to listen.
Elizabeth Lacy – “Hope”
Nick Hale – “A Party to Die For,” “Just Boys,” “The Beat’s Box,” and “Make Me Strong, But Not Today”
Mary Rook: Prologue to YA Fantasy Novel, “Nebula: The Threshold Concept”
Michael Sensale – “Penmanship”
Steve Konrad – “Cherished,” “Placement,” and “Bitch, Bitch, Bitch”
Kimberly Ray – “Words”
Lex Wood – “Dear Mom”
Melissa Shrock – “Conception” and “60 MPH”
Louis Mateus – “The Dream Fiends,” “There’s Coffee in the Pot,” and “Into the Outside”
Gail Williams – “A Letter to My Granddaughter”
Keith Munroe – “Suicide No More” and “A Boy in Love with Nothing”
Wills D. Uan – “The Reason Why I” and “Complete Opposites”
Lesley Tyson – “Mediations” and “Imposter”
Ron Nearhood – Dedicated to Stephen Hawking: “Philosophy” [The Chalkboard]
Patricia Music – “Mexico 1987” (A story from a travel journal)
John Cowgill – “Danny’s Not So Great Day” and “This Very Poem”
Andie Martin – “Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg”
David Martin – “Lorton” and “The Sermon to the Dead(Heads)”
Beth Kinzer – “Not Yet” and “Ode to The Great”
Alice Mergler – “Designing Olivia”
Me – “Writer’s Lament” and “It Lurks Within”
April 2018
4-27-18
14 readers!
Jirani had a private party book their establishment, so we held our event at Clearbrook Center for the Arts at Tackett’s Mill.
John Cowgill – Two poems {I missed the names getting more chairs}
Cathy Hailey – “Paris Café –1920,” “March Collage - Movement for Our Lives,” and “Poor Man’s Jewelry”
Beth Kinzer – Two poems “TO HER” and two poems “FROM HER”
Alice Mergler – “Anger is Fear’s Body Guard”
Aaron Scott [Colgan HS] – “Travels”
Ron Nearhood – A short story, “Short People”
Louis Mateus – “Flute Lessons” and “At Mr. Gray’s”
Jim Boucher [Bou-Shay] – “Always Present,” “Onward Hearts,” and “Short Snippets”
Joey Hickey – “Unholy,” “You Took My Hand,” “Every Word You Say to Me,” and “Recurring Nightmares”
Antonia Kilday – “Pardon Me,” and “We’re Buried at the Lake”
Andie Martin – “Dear Politicians,” and “Locked in to His Orbit”
Dave Martin – “March Winds,” and “The Madison”
Beverly Bendekgey – An excerpt from her novel, “Secret Lives”
Me – “Hostile Takeover at Herndon”
May 2018
5-25-18
30 readers! [Actually 29, but Steve Konrad went twice! J]
Steve Konrad – “Stand Under Me,” “A Rending,” “Changeling,” and “Skyfall”
Rachel Krantz [First time] – Read in German, Rilke’s “Das Stundenbuch”
Kitra – “The Cost,” and “The Beauty of the Color Red”
Sarah Williams [First time] – “Happy”
William Murray [First time] – “Missing Key”
Natalie Potell – “Columbine ‘99”
Michael Sensale – “Eternal Revolution” and “Contemporary Writer”
Lesley Tyson – Plugged “Poets Anonymous”
Louis Mateus – “Virginia,” “Young Lovers’ Trail” and “Sunrise with Dolphins”
Caitlin “Lin” Bausch – “The Execution,” “Vacant Hotel,” and “A Word Like Love”
Jae Dyche {D-Shay} [First time] – “Thread,” “Without,” and “Taking the Train to Chicago in August”
Kimberly Ray – “A Love I Cannot Return,” “Meet Me in the Rain,” and “Heart Wrapped in a Box”
Jim Bouchen – “…And Some Get Played in the Rain” and “Four Tunes”
Kayla White – A chapter from her book, “Corolina”
Andie Martin – “A Letter to My Past and Future Students”
Dave Martin – “Dying Days of Pisces” and “Bad Friday”
Gail Williams – “A Grand Marshall in a Small Town,” and “The Walking Stick”
Beth Kinzer – “Your Face is Missing,” “White Water,” and “Making Her Bed”
Chalet {Cha-lay} Jean-Baptiste [First Time] – “Cross the Bridge,” Man Broken,” and “So Many Me Toos”
Garrett Carlson – “Mental Illness, Depression”
Keith Munroe – “Therapy” and “Church”
Wills D. Uan – “Spoiled,” “Who Is Random?” and “Metro Stop”
Ron Nearhood – A short story, “Upgrade”
Daniel Nearhood – “Green” and “Mother’s Day”
Megan – “I am Read Tape” and A Dedication Poem to Nothing”
Trae X – “Bullets in the Classroom” and “Sister, My African Queen”
Carol Covin – “What Did You Want to Be Before You Grew Up?”
Judy Petruskie – “The Birdhouse and the Wren” and “The Joys and Non-joys of Spring”
Me – “Last Day – Apocalypse Forever” and “SOL Derby”
June 6th, 2018
Alice Mergler receives the PWC Arts’ Council “Lifetime Achievement Award”.
I receive the PWC Arts’ Council's "Outstanding Volunteer Award".
June 2018
6-22-18
17 readers!
Nick Hale – “Honk! If it falls off!” “Pass through,” and “We don’t talk about it”
Wayne Kline [First Time] – “Spies of the Presidential Campaign” and “Lincoln’s Photograph”
Megan – “Ghost Story” and “Elusive”
Keith Munroe – “California”
Lesley Tyson – “Deceptive Packaging,” “A Night Like This,” and “Conversation Under Anesthesia”
Alice Mergler – “What next will the sea summon forth?”
John Cowgill – “A Ride in Her Caboose” and “Captain Good Man”
Wills D. Uan – “Advice,” “Stay Hungry,” and “Lounging”
Gloria Wilson [First Time] – “The American Flag” and “Tattered”
Artik – As a memorial, she read a poem by Angela Renee Lyons, “Do First Impressions Matter?”
Robert Scott – “Mick and the Boys” [Mick Jagger]
Grace Sheehy [First Time] – “Shut Out” (Student of Robert’s from OPHS)
Gail Williams – “Aunt Ann’s House”
Louis Mateus – “Living Portrait,” “Willow Trees,” and “Under the Heavy Snow”
Beverly Ann Bendekgey – “The Sea,” “By the Shore,” and “Winter’s Pose”
Dan Leahy – “Into the Darkness”
Me – “Do Not Be Afraid”
July 2018
6-27-18
25 readers!
I was doing six weeks of crazy in a pop-up camper, so Alice Mergler hosted.
Artik – “The Legacy” and “Beautifully Made”
Lesley Tyson – “We Will Say It was a Wonderful Time,” “Story in Pieces” and “Blue Burns in this Light”
Graciela Hernandez – “The Rose” and “The Diamond”
Wills D. Uan – “Invisible,” “Don’t Forget To,” and “All Eyes on You”
Keith Munroe – “Perhaps I Should Say Goodbye,” and “In Concert with the Wind”
Michael Sensale – “Axe to Grind” [Novel – Chapter 20]
Ron Nearhood – “Back to the ‘90s Poetry”
Natalie Potell – “The Credible Corpse,” “Ghost,” and “Things Like Dreams”
Tyrell Jordan – “Confined” and “Conflicted”
Megan Lamoa – “Lament,” “A Mouse Cannot Eat an Elephant,” and “Deal a Hand of Random”
John Cowgill – “The Beauty of the Waterfall” and “Oh, Tosha”
Gail Williams – “The Heartbreak”
Dan Verner – “Blowing the Nose,” “One Shoe,” “Final Rights,” and “The Quieting of an Audience”
Erica Laster – “Of Captivity and Kings”
Jim Bouchen – “Rustic Rhythms,” “Little Angels,” and “Orangery”
Barbara Grace – “The Divorce Party,” “Home,” and “Number 167”
Sunflower and Clover (?) – “Snow Day” [A two-voice poem]
Steve Konrad – “Shrunk”
Mary Rook – “Nebula: The Threshold Concept” [Excerpt from novel]
Beth Kinzer – “Her Shoes,” “Perpetual Self,” and “Folded Phrases”
Jan Rayl – “Because I Knew”
Kimberly Ray and Charlize Ngo - [A two-voice poem] No Title L
Morgan Hazelwood – “A Glimpse into the Mind of a Querying Writer”
August 2018
8-24-18
21 readers!
Mary Rook – “Discarded” (Her husband was there to watch for the first time!) J
Katherine Gotthardt [First Timer] – “Character is Like a Tree,” “Bury Me Under a Lilac,” and “Telephone”
Natalie Potell – “In the Underbelly”
Dave Martin – “Bobby Barrett”
Jan Rayl – “Teacher”
Dan Leahy – “Do It Yourself” [Memoir]
Gail Wiliams – “Oatmeal” [Memoir]
Megan McDonald – “Skittle Skattle,” “Color Word Wheels,” and “Closing at the Saturation Point”
Michael Sinsale “Axe to Grind” [Novel - Chapter 21] Book released in 2019! J
Keith Munroe – “Alone Yet Loved by Emptiness” and “In Search Of Love Not Named In Words”
Jim Boucher – “Ghost,” “Traverse,” and “Captivating Stew”
Ron Nearhood – “Age” (Daniel, his son, said he will read next month!)
Wayne Kline – “Emperors by Night”
Steven Meehan – “Dead Man’s Hand” [Novel excerpt]
Carol Covin – “Apps I’d Like to See”
Kimberly Ray – “Coffee Shop Sessions,” “Little Babies,” and “Mom Life” [Poems from her book, “Parenting Poems”] (Her entire family was here to see her read!)
John Cowgill – “This is That Time” and “Jane on the Train”
Alice Mergler – “Technology”
Dan Verner – “What Poetry is Not,” “Cats are Tired of Summer,” and “Moving the Wood Pile”
Graciela Hernandez – “The Prism”
Me – “God’s Cathedral” and “The Tale of Two Beaches”
September 2018
9-14-18
14 readers!
September 14th, 2018: Opening Night for Spilled Ink EAST
Venue: Lakeside Grill and Café at Tackett’s Mill
John Cowgill – “This is That Time” and “Jane on a Train”
Paulette Gardner – “Be Kind” and “Panicked”
Alice Mergler – “To My Sons” and “Designing Olivia”
Susan Furst – “If a Tree Falls” and “The Princess and the Pearl”
Emma Turner [Student at WBHS] – “And I Am”
Dan Leahy – “The Tree Fort” [memoir]
Nicole Wilberg – “Who I Am” and “Last Chance Picnic” [short story]
David Holloway – “Pink Slipped” [short story]
Sarah Holloway – “Seven Sins in Seven Stages”
David Martin – “The Baseball Lovers” and “Held Hostage by the Rain”
Andie Martin – “Potential Change in Me”
Becky O’Loughline – “Technology” [memoir]
Nancy Kyme – Announced the Poet Laureate Crowning Ceremony
Me – Four wrestling poems, “The Poetry Schmuck,” and “God’s Cathedral”
9-28-2018
20 readers! [We also had a couple sit and listen to the entire program!]
Ruth Matthews – “Leroy’s New Job” [Excerpt from a novel]
Dave Martin – “Plastic Disc in Hand,” Cherry Blossom,” and “Humboldt”
Alex P. [First Time] – “Phoenix” and “People are Art”
Steve Konrad – “Poetry Kills,” “Coupled,” “Vengeance,” “She’s a Classic”
Sara Brooks – “Driving to Boca Raton”
Nick Hale – “For Anna,” “Axis,” and “To the Eternal Optimist”
Paulette Garner – “My Day Interrupted”
Alice Mergler – “A Wedding Toast” and “Alice and The Fixer”
Michael Sensale – “Summer’s Gone” and “Back to School”
Lesley Tyson – “Freeform Mediation on a Word,” “With Only Wet Napkins as Paper,” and “Breaking the Silence”
Linda Miller [First Time] – “I Know People” and “Low Battery”
Megan McDonald – “Poetic Atlantis,” “Windows,” “Art Deco,” and “Lunch Break Rules”
Gail Williams – “Farewell, My Good Friend”
Dan Leahy – “The Last Day” [A Tribute]
John Cowgill – “The Vanishing Experience”
Keith Munroe - “Fear”
Wills D. Uan – “Strange Being,” “Inclement,” “Tourist,” and “Uan’s Peace”
Jim Boucher – “Token,” “Plum,” “Nearly,” “Client,” and “Nightfall” [Haikus] and “Poetic Sayings for the Library Reader Board”
Naomi (Zebra) – “Corazor-broke,” “Adirondack,” and “Visa”
Beth Kinzer – “Masque,” “Game It All Away” J and “C”
Me – “God’s Cathedral” and “I Met the Missionary at Midnight”
October 2018
10-12-18
10 readers!
Spilled Ink EAST
John Cowgill – “The Great Vampire of Oles” and “A Date Interrupted”
Paulette Gardner – “My Day Interrupted” and “Kindness Without Border”
Alice Mergler – “I Thought You Were Retired”
Cathy Hailey – “Genesis of Creativity”
Dave Martin – “Yellow Pennants Hanging” and “Cats and Trees”
Antonia Kilday – “Scream,” “I Splattered on Your Arm,” and “At the Lake”
Michael Sensale – “Drainsville” [Radio Skit]
Nancy Kyme – “Territory,” “Baby Eva,” and “Searching”
Jessica Sebenale [First Timer & Student at WBHS] “Longing For” and “A Life to be Remembered”
Me – “ABC Poem 2018” and the five poems entered for the PWCPL contest
10-20-18
11 readers!
Spilled Ink is on a Saturday due to a private party being booked at Jirani’s on the fourth Friday. Also, today is the National Day of Writing! Sounds fitting!
Nick Hale – “Maria” and “Eleventh”
Angie Carrera – “Aphrodite Love,” “Dear Eyvonne,” and “A Dangerous Man”
Paulette Gardner – “Keepsake”
Alice Mergler – “A Birthday Card to My Friend Who Moved” and “On This Day of National Writing”
Becks Sosa – “Cough, Sneeze, and Pee”
John Cowgill – “The Great Vampire of Oles” and “The Great Feast of Valton”
Michael Sensale – “Drainsville” [Radio Skit] HE CAME IN COSTUME!
Dan Verner – First chapter of his novel, “Diamond Duty”
Jim Boucher – “Certain Journey,” “Find the Moment,” and “Love Harmony”
Dan Leahy – “Faces of the Lost”
Me – “ABC Poem 2018” and the five poems entered for the PWCPL contest
November 2018
11-9-18
7 readers!
Spilled Ink EAST
Mike Crowley – “Tabula Rasa,” “Nature’s Bounty, An Opposing Viewpoint” and “The Old Man Dreams”
Alice Mergler – “Wendy,” “A Time for Needed Wonders,” and “Sincerely Yours”
Michael Sensale – Chapter 11 of “Axe to Grind”
Dave Martin – “TRX Front Squat” [Written on a train] and “Unexpected Nightfall”
Beverly Bendekgey – Chapter 1 of “Hidden Treasures”
Naomi – “My Mother, Lighting Up a Galaxy All Her Own” and “Great Mistakes”
Me – “Teaching: A Divine Service,” “I Know the Angel’s Name,” and “What I Learned at the Dodge 2018”
11-23-18 [Black Friday, but we started Small Business Saturday early!]
14 readers and a half dozen listeners!
Ruth Matthews – Excerpt from her novel, Dangerous Love [Meimei and Melvina meet]
Andrew Cummins [First Timer] – Vase [Poem]
Linda Miller (Savannah Price is her pen name) – Spoken [Short story]
Mary Rook – Excerpt from her novel, Nebula: The Threshold Effect [Shocking grandma]
Gail Williams – Cold Turkey [Memoir on quitting smoking and dumping her ex]
Andie Martin – Tibbles the Turkey [Short story]
Dave Martin – Gray Wind and The Missing Page [Poems]
John Cowgill – “Oh, How We Miss You” and “The Untold Story of David and Goliath”
Dan Leahy [Lay-he] – The Trolley [Memoir]
Lesley Tyson – “Summary,” “Prologue-indicies,” and she read Paul Celan’s “Night of Wings”
Artik – “Beautifully Made” and “My First Elegy”
Megan McDonald – “Puzzles,” “Closing at the Saturation Point,” and “The Allusion of Nature”
Keith Munroe – Perseverance” and The Diner”
Me – “Teaching: A Divine Service,” “I Know the Angel’s Name,” and “What I Learned at the Dodge 2018” (I also read two poems written by Wisdom Stanley, “I AM” and “Snowflakes”)
December 2018
12-14-18
9 readers!
Spilled Ink EAST
John Cowgill – “The Great Rocket Man” and “It Was That Night Before Spilled Ink”
Michael Sensale – “Christmas Chaos”
Steve Meehan – “Journey of Thanks – A Ghost Story”
Nancy Kyme – “Exploring the Inexplicable,” and “A Note from Santa’s Daughter,” and “Schmidty – Finding My Middle”
Mike Crowley – “I Keep Losing My Car Piece by Piece,” “Could We Feed the Hungry,” “A Shadow of Her Former Self”
Beverly Bendekgey – “An Incomplete Treatise on Love”
Dave Martin – “L’Enfant Trees” and “The Quest of Elisheba”
Alice Mergler – “Beckoned by Music,” “To My Poetry Friends,” “Remembering Your Dad at Christmas”
Me – “The Last Straw”
12-28-18
19 readers and many listeners! I love when readers bring their “posse” for support!
Megan McDonald – “Night of the Full Moon,” East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” and “Christmas Deconstructed” [The latter was about her TBC – Terribly Bad Cat]
John Donley – “Animulling,” “Just Wandering,” and “Pray for Me”
Lesley Tyson – “Shine,” “His Name,” and “The End of Something”
Keith Munroe – “What’s Left in Conversation?”
Gail Williams – “Great Dreams Turn into Nightmare”
Ron Goad [First Timer] – “A Brief Poem about a Dog” and “Father”
Dan Leahy [Lay-he] – He read “A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelou
Ron Nearhood – “The Unicorn” and “Age”
Jay McClendon [First Timer] – “Mikey Carravaggio on the Swing at the Lake Park”
Mike Crowley – The Parrot Cries” and “The Traffic Tsar”
Mary Rook – “I’m Trying” and an excerpt from her YA novel, “Nebula: The Threshold Effect” [Mother’s finger]
Elizabeth Lacy – “Losing Things”
John Cowgill – “The Great Rocket Man” and “This Very Poem”
Paulette Garner – “The Light” and “All Night Long”
Alice Mergler – “Hope” and “To My Poetry Friends”
Artik – “Dare,” “Me,” and “Destiny”
Kimberly Ray – “New Year” and “In the Dead of Winter”
Kelly Haneklau [First Timer] – “The Glorious Birch”
Me – “The Last Straw”
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