100 Thousand Poets for Change Northshore reading

Our Northshore chapter of 100 Thousand Poets for Change annual reading had to be postponed this year; we held it yesterday, November 11, at the Women's Center for Healing & Transformation in Abita Springs, Louisiana. Attendance was rather low, but that meant that poets had a chance to read more poems. 

 

 

Our leader, poet Dennis Formento, had just won the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society's poetry manuscript competition, so we heard one of the winning poems. I read "That Care Forgot," "Touched," a new poem that will appear in January in Amethyst Review, and "A Paler Bird." For my extra reading, I read "Building a Cathedral."

Singing is encouraged at this event, and we did have one poet who sang a few of her lovely poems. Another poet read a poem (by someone else) that employed the point of view of a three-year-old boy who had been shot in the eye by a soldier during the Israel-Hamas war. It was a memorable piece of work.