Ruminating Poet Press

Poetry Co-Op Open Mic at the Water Witch Tiki Bar was great last night. Thirteen poets read, including a couple for their first time at an open mic.

Poets in alphabetical order: Amy, Anthony, Beau, Carri, Claribel, Darriea, Eli, Kristin, Lila, Lucy, Marc, Naomi and Trinity.

We played a poetry game called "Did You Ever" - those three words are the prompt and the first words. Everyone got 3x5 cards and a pen, added their own short lines, and I read all the poems at the end - a community memory and reflection.

Thanks to Darriea for taking the picture again.

Big Night at the Poetry Co-Op Open Mic last night at the Water Witch Tiki Bar. A lot of new folks both reading and in the audience. Sixteen people read, which is a record as long as I've been coming.
Poets in alphabetical order: Alx, Anthony, Ari, Assata, Carri, Claire, Darriea, Eli, Jae, Keshawn, LaLa, Mamie, Trinity, Sam, and Victoria.
Thanks to Darriea for taking the picture again.

Enjoying the warm weather, wearing tropical shirts again, but hedging my bets with warm layers under them.
I'm looking forward to Monday night's Poetry Co-Op Open Mic at Water Witch Tiki Bar. Join us there for poetry, good company, and maybe a drink or two.

Beautiful day at Savannah's Forsyth Park. High 70s, enough cloud cover to stay comfortable. A lot of people, a lot of good conversations, taught haiku rules to three people, and sold some books.

Got to know some more vendors - Like Cecilia with her hand-crafted decorative magnets, and her friend "Moral Support."

One of my highlights was when a young boy, maybe 7 or 8, read my sheet explaining how to write haiku, and looked up and said: "You wrote it in haiku!"

Another high point was when a young couple who had bought a book came back and said that they had been reading poems to each other at lunch, and thanked me.