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May 6th, 2015: Videos of featured poet Laurie D Graham and 5 open mic readers

5/25/2015

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On one of the first truly warm evenings of this very late Spring, poets and poetry lovers gathered at the May 6th, 2015, London Open Mic at Mykonos Restaurant as sunlight and fresh air streamed in the back of the terrace.

Click here: 
Video playlist of feature Laurie D Graham 
and 5 open mic readers 

The previous day’s Alberta election was still as fresh as prairie air on the minds of many in the audience of thirty, an election in which the Alberta NDP shockingly booted the PCs out of the province in one of the most stunning upsets in Canadian history. By glorious coincidence, the featured poet for the evening was Laurie D Graham, who had just moved to London from Alberta, and who read poems about the province - its land, people and history - from her collection, “Rove”. Graham’s grandparents and great grandparents had homesteaded in Alberta, just as had my (Organizer Stan’s) father, and his parents. In memory of which, I wore my father’s old 1930‘s tweed cap and read at the open mic his (and partly my) poem of homesteading in the dust bowl and of finally escaping to log-cabin country in the north in 1931.

The West wafted strongly through the Mykonos terrace, but so did the essences of many other places and people, as fourteen very diverse open mic poets read their creations to warm applause.


Interview with feature Laurie D Graham, and some of her poems.
Of the 14 open mic readers, those who gave us permission to videotape them were Martin Hayter, Andreas Gripp, David Stones, Brydon McGhee, and Paul Branton.,  Click video above for all videos in sequence, or video playlist to choose from.
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