The History of Spilled Ink
or
How on Some Nights I Stopped Talking and Wrote Something Down
YEAR 3
January 2017
1-27-17
Our two-year anniversary!
[20 people]
Dan Verner – An excerpt from his book, “Diamond Duty” and “Cats Losing Weight”
Carol Covin – “Our 49th Anniversary”
John Cowgill – “The Falcon” [Pre-Super Bowl Stories]
Jan Rayl – “A Novel Approach to Aging”
Ron Nearhood – Poetry
Daniel Nearhood, age 7, -- “Red”
Gail Williams – “Angels on the Mountain”
Aaron – Lord Mammon
Robert Scott – An excerpt from “Business Cards”
Natalie Potell – Poetry: “Insect Dreams” and “The Defeat of Jesse James”
Chelsea Wood – Poetry: “I Wish I Could Write Happy Poems” and “In My Dreams”
Klue – “My Hands Begin to Bleed”
Kimberly Ray – “In the Dead of Winter”
Judy Petruskie – “The Snowman” and “Talking to God”
Susan Beth Furst – “Irena” / “The Lily Pond” / “Point”
Cathy Hailey – “Affordable Care Act or When I’m 65” / “Under the Sun”
Kaitlyn Graham – “Burnout”
Paulette Garner – “The Courage to Come Together”
Alice Mergler – A plug for the Poetry Circle’s “In the Company of Laureates 2”
Kaya Moya created an open community page for us on Facebook, Spilled Ink (Virginia)
February 2017
2-24-17
[22 readers] Too many supporters to name individually! J
Ron Nearhood – Poems by Poe, E.E. Cummings, and Tennyson
Beverly Ann Bendekgey – “Ditty, Ditty, Bang, Bang”
Gail Williams – Selection from Book 2 of “North Dakota” trilogy
Robert Scott – Excerpt from “E-mails from Jennifer Cooper”
Sara Brooks – “Short”
Kathy Moya – “Weekend with Dad”
Autumn Gasper [and her fan club of four] – “For You and Only You” (Colgan HS)
Lily G. – “My Best Friend” (Colgan HS)
Olivia Loper – “Surgery” (Colgan HS)
Andie Martin – “I Wasn’t Meant to be a Poet” (Colgan HS) [FANTASTIC!]
Lynn Vassar – “Woman – A Contest Poem on Feminism”
Tyrell Jordan – Excerpt from “The Hooded Stranger” (OP HS)
Carol Covin – “Boy Brownies”
Jane H. Jones – Five American Haikus for her mom
John Cowgill – “This is That Time”
Belinda Miller – Excerpt from “Centurion’s Lance”
Judy Petruskie – “Choices” and an excerpt from “Dave’s Search for Adventure”
Chelsea Wood – “The Exception” [WONDERFUL!]
Kimberly Ray – “The So-Called Life of a Poet”
Justin Layne – “Self”
Artik – “Harm-No-Me” and “Battle Scars”
Me – “The Family Notebook”
March 2017
3-24-17
Jirani’s One-Year Anniversary proving “Art and coffee go together!”
[22 readers] Too many supporters to name individually! J
Nancy Kyme – “Peace Rules and Stillness” & “The Rhythm”
Paulette Garner – “Interacting with a Fly”
John Cowgill – “Danielle” & “Melissa”
James Loper [Low-per] – “The Sandlot” [Baseball memories] J
Olivia Loper [Low-per] – “Stories before Bed – I Love You to the Moon and Back”
Deloris Allotey [All-o-tey] – “Movement” {Oh, the honesty! J}
Aaron Scott – “Green Ruby” [Chapter one]
Andie Martin – “The R-Word” (Redskins) & “Why Can’t You See?”
Daniel Nearhood {He turned 8 last Saturday} – “Blue” & “Looking Up, Not Down"
Ron Nearhood – “The Grand Opening” & “The Raft”
Judy Petruskie – “Childhood Memories from the Corner of My Mind” & “Moving”
Artik – “The Legacy” & “Unspoken”
Belinda Miller – “Centurion’s Lance” [Chapter five]
Kathy Moya – “An Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe” J
Carol Covin – “Tapioca” {She still hates it to this day!}J
Ken Moorman, Owner of Jirani – “You Are Sitting in My Dream”
Jan Rayl – “I Want to Talk about Sports”
Aaron – “Why?” & “Love”
Tyrell Jordan – “The Hooded Stranger” [Chapter four]
Joe Hughes – “Idols”
Gail Williams – Excerpt from Book Two of the North Dakota Trilogy
*Book One is titled: Seeds of Graceton!
Me – “I Once Met a Thing from Space” [Limerick]
Colgan High School writers have become a staple at Spilled Ink!
[Joe Hughes, Andie Martin, Aaron Scott, Deloris Allotey, and Olivia Loper]
Now, if only their teacher, Garret Carlson, will attend!
April 2017
4-22-17
SPILLED INK, JR. [Rising Writers’ Workshop at Colgan High School]
[20 Readers]
Rachel Washburg - “About Me”
Madison Petty - “Angst Against Formal Education”
Gabriela Morales - “Questions”
Gabriela Morales and Sophia Elhadidi [Partner Poetry] - “Beauty”
Miriam Elhadidi - “Paint What You See”
Sophia Elhadidi - “To My Grandma”
Lily Parker - “If I Could Give the Ocean”
Bryan Crowe - “Divided”
Deloris Allotey - “Disliked”
Dioma Ogwara - “You”
Joe Hughes - “Shaving”
Trisha Johnson - “Coffee”
Kayla White - “I Have Become the Sea”
L.J. - “December 7, 1941”
Sammi Meyer - “The Inevitable Disease”
Jennifer Prue - “The Accidental Anarchist”
Zaire Hall-Hamilton - “What I Meant to Say”
Maria Lafollette [Teacher] - “Riptide”
Lynn Vassar - “Sick of It”
Hailey Pierce-Moystner - “I Can Make a Difference”
Me “25 Minutes of Peace”
4-28-17
[28 readers] Many supporters
[Thank you for your patience tonight!]
Terrell Jordan [OPHS] - “Coincidence” and “Prom-posal”
Kimberly Ray - “Inspired by a Friend,” Flashes of Time,” and “Coincidence or Not?”
Ben Potter - “Dinky and Sugar Babes – A Love Story”
John Cowgill - “Clyde the Glide” and “The Pilot”
Cathy Hailey - “The Potential of the Human Heart”
Belinda Miller - “Centurion’s Lance” [Chapter ten]
Natalie Potell - “My Father,” “The Hotel,” and “In Waiting”
Dan Leahy – “The River”
Kathy Smaltz – “Fireflies” and “How to Slay Holofernes” (Current PWC Poet Laureate)
Tina Nagy – “The Inheritance”
Joe DeCesare – “The Great Green Glow”
Ron Nearhood – “Oxygen,” The Grand Opening,” and “Reason”
Daniel Nearhood – “Red” and “Blue” (Our youngest artist, age 8) J
Kaitlyn Graham [WBHS] – “Madalynn”
Garrett “Kickball” Carlson [Teacher at Colgan HS] – “Facts about Owls”
Izzy Dallaire [Colgan HS] – “The Untitled Story”
Kassidy Delano [Colgan HS] – “Don’t”
Chelsea “Not a Student” Wood – “Love Poem, Ooooh!” and “You Are Perfect and You Are Mine”
Gabriela Morales [Colgan HS] – “Waves and Mold”
Madison “Edgy” Petty [Colgan HS] – “What Came Up from Below” and “This is Sparta”
Miriam “The Magic Touch” Elhadidi [Colgan HS] – “Paint What You See”
Sophia Elhadidi [Colgan HS] – “A Farm in Wisconsin”
Kayla White [Colgan HS] – “The Blacker the Berry”
Andie Martin [Colgan HS] – “Scrambled” and “Sonnet # I Don’t Even Know”
Olivia (Low-per) Loper [Colgan HS] – “Chimney Rock” and “Late Night Snacks”
Jim (Low-per) Loper – “Gone Fishing – A Baseball Story”
Gail Williams – “The Riskers”
Me – “Blink. Blink. Blink. Blink.”
May 2017
5-26-17
[27 readers] Many supporters! Some were Cathy Hailey, Erik and Joni Gallegos, and Andie Martin’s father.
Ron Nearhood – Chapter 1 of “The Automata”
Dan Verner – “Poetry is Not,” “Escalation,” “Laundry,” and “Quieting of an Audience”
Penny Wilson [Colgan HS] – “The Longer You Wait” [procrastination poem]
Andie Martin [Colgan HS] – “End of School” and “Numbers”
Michael Sensale – “By the Numbers” and “Grammar”
Kathy Smaltz – “If,” “Rules,” and “Rosary”
Judy Petruskie – “Sounds”
Alice Mergler – “Skin Cream: The Total Effect” and “The Thorny Plant”
Ben Potter – “One for the Modern Man” and “The Traveler”
Artik – “Ma Dear” and “Ma Dear #2”
Jordan Blake [Colgan HS] – “Life”
Just Aaron – “No Man’s Land”
Isabelle Dallaire [Colgan HS] – “How the Earth Was Made”
Kayla White [Colgan HS] – “Don’t Think About Tomorrow”
Tyrell Jordan [OPHS] – Chapter 7 of novel, “Tyrell”
Trisha Johnson [Colgan HS] – “Coffee”
Gail Williams – Excerpt from “Graceton” Trilogy (Wilmer trapped in snow)
Dan Leahy – “Alter Boy”
Eloise Wallace – Excerpt from “A Lesson to be Learned” and “Nurse, Nurse”
Carol Covin – “Cancer Journey”
Aly Lemons [Colgan HS] – “Theatre”
Attira (A-tear-a) Perry [Colgan HS] – “Change”
Zoe Johanna Pappas [Colgan HS] – “The Alphabet”
Gabriela Perez [Colgan HS] – “Why Don’t You”
Zakiyya Atamin [Colgan HS] – “What She Taught Me”
Diamond Agyei (A-jay) [Colgan HS] – “Pearl Black Mountain”
Me – “SOL Derby 2017” and “SOL Testageddon 2017”
June 2017
6-17-16
Summerfest at Tackett’s Mill, A Special Daytime Edition of Spilled Ink
The works of twelve writers were read:
Dan Verner – “Cats Eating Ice Cream” and “Laundry”
Carol Covin – “Teeth” and “Marriage Compatibility”
Cathy Hailey – “Under the Sun”
Alice Mergler – “Churning Ice Cream” and two memoirs of her father
Kimberly Ray – “Little Babies”
Graciela Hernandez [Marsteller Middle School] – “We Got That”
Rosemarie Fitzsimmons – “Hard Drive Not Found”
Nancy Kyme – She read Robert Scott’s “Fast Food Napkin”
Kathy Smaltz – She read Zan Hailey’s “Round Yellow House”
Hatley Wood [Woodbridge High School] – “I Loved You by the Light of Alien Spaceships” and “Caballito”
Kathy Smaltz – “Hercules, A Hero of All Times Takes Hippolyte’s Belt,” “Italian Birdsong for Joy,” and “Another View of Icarus”
Me – “I Taught My Cat to Clean My Room,” “Black,” “If You Only See the Score,” “Armadillo Lost her Pillow,” and its sequel, “The Extraction”
6-23-17
[28 readers] Many supporters, including Cathy Hailey and Kathy Smaltz. It was a packed house!
Amy Bayne – “Slipping Stitches”
Ron Nearhood – Two chapters from “Automata”
Jim and Olivia Loper – “The Throw Down”
Gail Williams – “Eat Your Food” and “Two Screams in the Night”
Carol Covin – “Marriage Tips”
Angela Renee – “Beauty Queen”
Alice Mergler – Plugging the “In the Company of Laureates”
Dan Verner – “Receiving the Mail” and “Argument from Sugarhower”
Dan Leahy – “Virus”
Zach Tamer – “The Hoppity Koose,” “Fleeting Moments,” and “Love in the Hills”
Andie “Cherokee” Martin – “Andie’s Mostly Vanilla Sundae”
D. W. Martin – “Piscean Commutes” [A.K.A. – “My Car and I”]
Susan “Haiku” Beth Furst – “57,” “Empty Bucket,” and “Daddy’s Best Intention”
June Forte – “Barely There, My Hair” and “Blind Date”
Garrett Carlson – “This is Professional Wrestling: The PWG”
Michael Sensale: Chapter 1 of “Axe to Grind”
Ben Potter – “The Self-Conversing Mind” and “Answers You Cannot Grasp”
Tina Nagy – “Like Father, Like Daughter”
Victoria Umoru – “Many People, One Nation”
William Uanserume – “Closure”
Artik – “Big Ol’ Woman” and “Hooked”
Keith Munroe – “Rivalry”
Steve Konrad – “Seven Up Town,” “Stop,” and “Robbers”
Darby Smith – “The Bristow Area”
Jan Rayl – “Just a Nurse”
Shanise “Shay” Terry – “Strong Black Man”
Tyrell Jordan – “Bees” and a synopsis of the novel, “S.T.U.D.”
Me – “Community Pool, 2017”
July 2017
7-28-17
[26 readers] Many supporters, including Greg Komitsky, Bikal Paudel, and Angela Renee.
Michael Sensale – “Infinite Probability,” “Unremarkable,” and “Grammar”
John Cowgill – “Jane on the Train,” “Flowers,” and “Oh, Zenia. Oh, So Sweet”
Just Aaron – “Antithesis of Genesis”
Aiyana Manns (7 years-old) “Cupcakes and Rainbows”
Keith Munroe – “Made Without Purpose” and “Love is a Stupid Word”
Tom Basham – “Something Going On” and “The Bottom”
Jim and Olivia Loper [Low per] – “Service Dog”
Alice Mergler – “Messing with Masefield”
Dan Verner – “School Daze” and “The Cats are Tired of Summer”
June Forte – (Haiku) “Pantry Baked” and “The Old Dog and I”
Judy Petruskie – “Time to Move On”
Victoria Umoru – “Clouds in the Sun”
William U – “Lost Thought,” “One Day,” and “Season Overbear”
Forrest George – “Vegetable,” “Ephemeral,” and “Beige”
Andie Martin – “First Blood Drive”
Dave Martin – “Photographs and Fathers,” and “Something that Rhymes”
Chelsea Wood – “Who Am I?” and “I Can’t Breathe”
Graciela Hernandez – “Elements: Air, Water, Fire, and Earth”
Ben Potter – “The Sheep” and “Many Thoughts”
Kelly Nichols – “Subtle at First” and “Writing While Frustrated”
Natalie Potell – “A Man on His Way to Work,” “War is an Ugly Thing,” and “Isabelle”
Ruth Matthews – “We Had a Piano”
Jan Rayl – “Illness Asks”
John Donley – “Stuff,” “Sometimes,” and “Too Fast, Too Slow”
Steve Konrad – “Not a Virgin,” “French Ballet,” “Sundown” and “Gone to Church”
Me – “Saving Sarah Mayrah”
August 2017
[24 readers] Many supporters, including Artik, Ben Potter, and Angela Renee.
Paulette Garner – “The Courage to Come Together”
Cathy Hailey – “Ardea Herodias”
Alice Mergler – Plugs two events: Arts Alive and In the Company of Laureates
Nayomi* - “Homage to Amy Whitehouse,” “They Shook the Goldfish in the Plastic Baggie Too Hard,” and “White Cigarette Lighters”
Antonia “Toni” Kilday – “A Cup of Tea and Me,” “Where the Rainbow Ends,” and “Same Old Clothes”
Steve Konrad – “The Cry of the Whippoorwill,” Societal Oncology,” and “Doobie or Not Doobie?”
Ruth Mathews – “Reading Survival”
Keith Munroe – “The Liberty of Thoughts,” and “Inevitable”
Wills D. One – “Clear,” “Illusion,” and “One on One”
Graciela Hernandez – “Choosing at a Coffeehouse” and “We are Cowards for Hiking”
Dave Martin – “David Dances Before the Lord,” and “Strands of Thick Black Hairs”
Andie Martin – “Walt Disney World”
Michael Sensale – “Topsy Turvy” and “Summer’s Gone”
John Dunley – “Standing Watch,” “Stay with Me,” “Regina’s Garden,” “America First”
Dan Leahy – “The Death of President Kennedy”
Joseph Leo Hickey – “Happy and Sad at the Same Time” [First Time!]
Angie Carrera – “Trouble” [First Time!]
Mary Rook – “An Angry Poem” [First Time!]
Kimberly Ray – “Calming Mechanism” and “I Got a Gig”
Forrest George – “We Built a Bridge”
E’loise Wallace – “Searching for My Lost Star,” “Mom Was Right!” and “Mr. Keenan in the [School] House”
John Cowgill – “Meet Me at the Water Park” and “The Phantom One”
Gail Williams – “Scarred for Life: Why I Don’t Ride Motorcycles or Sit on Bar Stools”
John Dutton – The beginning of “Armadillo and the Bee”
*[I messed up her name previously. I spelled it: Naomi. SORRY!]
SPILLED INK has a new website: www.spilledinkva.com
September 2017
9-17-17
ARTS ALIVE - Special POET LAUREATE CIRCLE Edition
[24 readers] Many supporters!
John Cowgill – “Jane on the Train,” Zenia,” and “Limerick of Ladies”
Nayomi “Zebra” Aracelli – “Ode to Amy Winehouse”
Antonia “Toni” Kilday – “Little Spider” and “Where the Rainbow Ends”
Paulette Garner – “Time Out” and “Questions for Dr. King”
Cathy Hailey – “Arcadia” and “Poets Laureate”
Michael Sensale – “Infinite Improvability,” “By the Numbers” and “Grammar”
Angela Lyons – “How I Feel About My People”
Alice Mergler – “Ode to My Honda Element” and “Power of the Pen”
Kathy Smaltz – “Hercules, A Hero of All Times Takes Hippolyte’s Belt,”
David Martin – “Eka-Ika-Khan” and “Moment in the Sun”
Andie Martin – “The Beauty Within”
Victoria Umoru – “Many People, One Nation”
John Donley – “Sometimes” and “Reciprocal”
Tom Basham – “Arts Alive,” “Who Are You?” and “Angel, WOW!”
Jan Rayl – “Illness Asks” and “I AM the Nurse”
Dan Verner – “Escalation,” “Manassas Singers,” and “The Dishwasher”
Dan Leahy – “The Death of Kennedy”
Nancy Kyme – “Idaho,” “North Dakota,” and “Indiana”
David Dickson – Poems from “Call in the Air”
E’loise Wallace – “Mom was Right” and Chapter 1 of “A Lesson Learned”
Terraya Lewis – “Eight Shots”
Joe DeCeasare – “On This Day”
Robert Scott – “16,000 Miles – A Runner’s Reflection”
Me – “Do Not Go Gently in to Those New Jeans” and “The Poet Not Chosen”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz7Rz6JEnEQ&feature=youtu.be
Alice Mergler and Kathy Smaltz In the Company of Laureates TV interview! WATCH ALL OF IT. THEY ARE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE PROGRAM.
9-22-17
TONIGHT WAS FILLED WITH PASSION AND EMOTION!
[28 readers] Many supporters, including Ruth Matthews!
Alice Mergler – “The Power of the Pen – Donation Edition”
Ken Hailey – “Fifth Amendment Boy”
Jan Rayl – “Slap the Screen Door” and “Inspired by Ethics”
Keith Munroe – “For the Old Man Who Found Me When I Was Lost,” “Faith,” and
“A Girl Met When I Was Young”
Wills D. Uan – “My Thoughts” and “My Hard Work”
Joey “Family Friendly” Hickey – Poems from the book, “Live My Life Remix”
Artik – “A Personal E-mail” and “Me”
Steve Konrad – “Label,” “Property,” “Public Service Announcement,” and “Bar Wrangled Banner”
Robert Scott – “16,000 Miles – A Runner’s Reflection”
John Donley – “Recyclical,” “Itchy Bitchy Sniper: A Cursory Crime,” and “Down the Up Ladder”
Cathy Hailey – “Dancing in Circles”
Andie Martin – “Only Inner Beauty” and “Stop Spreading Hate”
David Martin – “Hot August Night” and “A Cat is Like a Tree”
Paulette Garner – “My Food Memory”
Michael Sensale – “Drawing the Lines” and “Free”
Nali – “Restless,” “Star Well,” and “They Cannot Conquer Forever”
Ron Nearhood – “Almost Persuaded,” “The Grace of the Fire,” and “The Grand Opening”
Beverly Bendekgey – “On Social Norms” [A poem in the form of a play]
Nick Hale – “I Want to be the Guy” and “Confessions on a Couch”
Adria – “Lullabies” and “Powder Keg Potential”
Anna Bledsoe – “Statistical Probability,” “Rollers at the Table,” and “Longevity, What Lasts?”
Carol Covin – “A James Bond Martini”
Christiana Kilday – “The Monster” and “Dedicated to Mom”
Antonia “Toni” Kilday – “Scream,” “Mother or Monster,” and “Pardon Me”
Kimberly Ray – “The Elephant Mom,” “Clichés for Life,” and “Am I Privileged?”
June Forte – “The Agony of Norman Kaplan”
John Cowgill – “The Vanishing Experience in Four Parts”
Me – “Billy Pug’s Worst Day”
October 2017
10-8-17
In the Company of Laureates - Special POET LAUREATE CIRCLE Edition
[This was a "walk up" event, so I could not get titles of their work.]
[23 readers] Many supporters!
Paulette Garner
Joseph Hickey
Jan Rayl
Cindy Brookshire
Stan Galloway (from Bridgewater College)
John Cowgill
John Donley
Keith Munroe
April Bly-Monnen (asked to attend by Nancy Kyme)
Lesley Tyson
Beverly Bendekgey
Tom Basham
Nayomi
Dan Verner
Salima Driss (Woodbridge HS)
Michelle Garcia (Woodbridge HS)
Garrett Alexander (Woodbridge HS)
Farah Tirari (Woodbridge HS)
Asra Shuaib (Woodbridge HS)
Artik
Eloise Wallace
Terraya Lewis
Me
F.Y.I. Next year, only one poem per poet. The reason being that the schedule times are not set in stone. 23 of 30 poets were able to read. The first 11 read two poems while the last 12 poets read one poem. Of the second group, I think we did 12 poets in 35 minutes.
10-27-17
Spilled Ink
[30 readers] Many supporters!
Caitlin “Lin” Batton – “Truth is a Woman,” “Weeping Angel.” and “Ava”
John Cowgill – “A New Twist on Little Miss Muffet”
Ken Hailey – “The Buck Knife”
Gabriela Morales – “Car Crash”
Louis Matens – “Too Much Sun,” “Want,” and “M&Ms”
Robert Scott – “Irish Memento”
Trae X – “If Not Now”
Gail Williams – “Some Aren’t Sleeping Well”
Ron Nearhood – “Of Roses and Violins,” “Poor Little ID,” and “Communion”
Susan Osterberg – “How Innocence Burns,” “Trees,” and “Again and Again”
Autumn Gasper – “Finding Myself at Young Life”
Jim Loper [Lowper] – “Homecoming Football Game”
Olivia Loper [Lowper] – “High School Musical”
Forrest George – “Winter at the Estuary,” “Fish,” “The Dawn Called,” and “Morning”
Roman Stanley – “Moonbow,” The Muse Speaks at 75 MPH,” and “Sylphs and Ants”
Paulette Garner – “Gone Fishing”
Megan McDonald – “Call the Name of Stars,” “The Lazarus Jewel Box,” and “Book Review”
Dan Leahy – “Darkness” and “Light”
Keith Munroe – “Let Blood Be Born Again in Labor”
Angela Lyons – “My Dog, Z – A.K.A. Handsome”
John Donley – “Pardon Me, Sam Shepard,” Rosetta Stoned Scotch,” and “Midnight Music”
Lesley Tyson – “Screen Porch” and “Old Friends”
Steve Konrad – “As Society Simmers,” “Mind Blind,” “Ring Bound,” and “Shroud”
Andie Martin – “Our Relationship” and “Emotionally Homeless”
Dave Martin – “Sanctuary”
Sara Brooks – The Boy Who Will Love Me” and “Little Pills, Side Effects, and Manic Desires”
Wills D. Uan – “Black and Gray,” “My Paradise,” and “Pure of Heart”
Dan Verner – “Pilgrimage,” “Final Right,” and “The Cats Are Looking for Something to be Upset About”
Nayomi – “The Track Marks Are Gone”
Me – “I Am an Exhausted Teacher”
November 2017
11-24-17
[22 readers] Many supporters!
David [Dave] Martin – “I Heard My Sister Cry” and “7:17 on 11-17”
Andie Martin – “Thanksgiving 2017” and “We All Need Pixie Dust in Our Lives”
Roman Stanley – “A Celtic Creation Myth,” “Night Canoeing on the Canal,” and “A Goose in Slapstick”
John Cowgill – “Amanda” and “Holly’s Piggies”
Joseph Leo Hickey – “Then I Am Distracted,” “When You Remember, Slow Down,” and “I Heard the News Today”
Keith Munroe – “Nothing If Something” and “Watching Harold and Maude”
Lesley Tyson – “That She was Here,” “Double Edged,” and “Braiding”
Gail Williams – “Contraband, or The Day I Made the Sergeant Laugh”
Nick Hale – “Procrastinator’s Ode to Homework,” “Cheap Thrills,” and he read Ed Stever’s “Missives from Africa”
Ruth Matthews* – Excerpt from her novel, “Mrs. Cotten’s House”
Steve Konrad* – “By the Rocket’s Red Glare,” “Nothing is Built Unbroken,” and “Spaghetti Head”
Beverly Ann Bendekgey – “Work Ethic,” “Fishing,” “Day Tripper,” and “Baseball Generation”
Caitlin “Lin” Batton – “Aim for the Sun,” “If Liberty’s Torch Flickered Out,” and “I Beg for a Dreamless Sleep”
Louis Matens – “Gemini,” “Let’s Hear It for the Frogs” and “The World’s Beat”
Michaela Reilly – “Limber and Rumble” and she read T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Heather Osial – “High Insight,” “Silence,” and “My Hands Betray Me”
Caelie [Kay-lee] Jones – “After Vulnerability”
Charlotte Davis – “He is Rain” and “Commitment Distraction”
Kaitlin Whetstone – “Open Letter” and “Should I Accept?”
Jan Rayl – “Thanksgiving?”
Anye Biamby [Ah-nee Bee-am-bee]- “Paralyzed”
Me – “Schooled” and “Armadillo and the Bee”
*They live in Maryland!
December 2017
12-4-17
Armadillo Lost Her Pillow is released to the public at a small book talk for local authors at the Chinn Library. The event was hosted by the Bel Air Woman’s Club. I joined Nancy Smith Kyme, who gave an impressive talk on her journey as a published author, and five other authors. Three of the authors bought my book. J I will never get over seeing it on Amazon.
12-22-17
[23 Readers] Dottie Ward-Wimmer and many supporters!
*Dottie had to leave early. She can go first the next time she attends.
Elias Swadener [Swad-en-er] – “Personal Poetry”
Elizabeth Lacy – “Grey Hairs” and “Like a Balloon”
Artik – “My CHRISTmas Gift” {mas = more}
Trae X – “Christmas Music Observations” and “Red, Black, and Green”
Pary Shuaib [Sh-why-b] – “You Have a Woman” and “I Feel Such Pressure to be Beautiful”
Thamina Safi – “Loneliness”
Andie Martin “Discussing My Norwegian Heritage at Disney” and “Dictionary Defined Christmas” *She was accepted into CNU! So long Colgan HS, Hello college!
David Martin – “Double Edged Sword”
Alice Mergler – “A Poem for John” (Me) J
Dan Leahy – “The Wedding”
Steve Konrad – “On the Luce [Loose]” and “Scrap”
Ron Nearhood – “Love Song,” “Star Cruising,” and “I Want to be THAT Man”
Daniel Nearhood - “Looking Up, Not Down”
Megan McDonald – “Interlocking Blues,” “Pink Satin,” and “Sleeping Song”
Gail Williams – “Angels on the Mountain”
Keith Munroe – “Advice”
Micheal Sensale – A Trifling Thriller Production, “Dead Men Leave No Trails, a Knight Shade Mystery [Performed by John Donley, Jan Rayl, David Martin, John Dutton, Steve Konrad, and Micheal Sensale]
Lesley Tyson – “Beginning and Endings,” Solstice,” and “Christmas Morning”
John Cowgill – Happy Holly-days” and “The Night Before the Night Before Christmas”
John Donley – “Struggling to Write (intro),” “Anecdotard,” and “Closed Circuit Communion”
Jan Rayl – “Twas the Night Before Spilled Ink”
Louis Mateus – “To Romance,” “The Pond,” and “Lessons”
Me – “Sunshine,” “My Shadow,” “Snowflakes,” and “Writers’ Lament”
AT ONE TIME, WE WERE ALL 1ST TIME READERS – BE BRAVE!
IT TAKES ONCE TO GO FROM 1ST TIME TO LONG TIME!
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