Ruminating Poet Press

It was a beautiful, but breezy day in Forsyth Park. The St. Patrick's themes were starting to predominate in advance of the big weekend to come.

Our friend Beau Frail dropped by while Margo and were setting up. He designed and made the "Haiku in the Park with Marc" sign. Margo and I enjoyed coffee and pastries from the park cafe before the crowds started up.

The artists mostly set up early, and the crowds did come. You could hear multiple languages from the strollers walking by. I talked to people from Ireland, Canada, Columbia, India, Turkey, and many others who did not say where they were from.

I prepared this week with creating QR codes for both book donations, and to answer the question - where did you get that dragon? Both worked well.

The other artists surrounding me were all good neighbors. I enjoyed talking to many of them, especially Maxx Feist, Thomas Rider, Sammy Esterline, Thomas Kezenske, Alex Wilkinson, Lauren Fleisher, Kiera, Pearl, and Vintage Mo.

It was a very good day. I went home tired, but happy.

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.