Reading Tonight: b.b. bistro, Annapolis 6:30 PM

Come hear "Just Mary", and others, orate their writing prose. Then join Mary with a "Prosst" at Heroes, thereafter.

EVENT: Poetry reading followed by drinks at Heroes
Friday May 14th at B.B. Bistro, 110 Annapolis Street
6:30pm, Six meat-eating featured poets, listed below in height order:

Barbara DeCesare, who is her own worst enemy (which makes the restraining order very difficult to abide by)
Deanna Nikaido (who doesn't really eat meat)
Mary Bargteil (Just Mary)
Rebecca Gonzalez
Mike Snider
and
Hiram Larew

with special musical guest Naked Blue!

Each Friday in May, a different Annapolis coffeeshop will be hosting a free poetry event, with six featured readers, open mic, some music, surprise mystery guests and potentially naked Albanian jugglers, but we’re still working the green card issues.
Join Cliff, Rocky, open mic readers and a penetralia of past featured poets for THE CORNER OF POETRY AND MAIN , a celebration of five years of bringing the region’s best poets together with the Crabopolis community. Come and enjoy a brand of entertainment that is honest, unique, semi-spontaneous, and, at times, just plain weird (in a good way). Featured readers and open mic participants (that’s you!) will be recorded, and a compilation cd is in the offing.

Poet bios:

Just Mary is published in poetry, short story, and novella. Mary Lorraine Bargteil is troubled by her name, artifacts, and alignment. Frequently inconsistent, her creative efforts have resulted in publication in poetry, short story, novella, and essay. One of her creative objectives is to make books from existing materials and to excavate territories and characters where the artifacts are sketchy at best. Her most recent poetry collection, “Artifacts” was discovered when she was reading the unsubstantiated account of Lilith and broke her grandfather's Baltimore and Ohio railroad official china egg cup. She finds significance in things that are broken.

Mike Snider has written mostly rhyming, metrical poetry for 41 years and played music for 39 if you don't count those disastrous piano lessons at the age of 12, but only remembers one song of the three he wrote in all that time. Fortunately, he gets to perform the aptly named "Solitaire" with the eclectic folk-fusion band Fractal Folk. He blogs at Mike Snider's Formal Blog. Google knows the band and the blog.

Like so many poets, Hiram Larew is in love with all that isn't said. It's what's implied, sensed or downright absent that sticks around, haunts and teases. Leaping from place to place is good, too. So, of course, his favorite poet is Chopin and his favorite songster is Gerard Manley Hopkins with Dylan Thomas as fine backup. Larew is real short and squat. If you want to know any more about him, try yawning.