Summary and photo gallery (scroll down) from the Mar. 2nd, 2016 London Open Mic Poetry NIght.
The March open mic, on one of the last cold days of winter, was exceptionally warm and personal from beginning to end.
Featured poet Andreas Gripp's readings are always warm and personal, but this time, in his Q&A, he talked about aspects of his life few had known before. As did many of the open mic readers who followed him.
Carrie Connel, who was recently married to Gripp, expressed the love they share in her poetry, a passion which has resulted in her newly-minted form of haiku, the "love_ku". Carrie hopes fellow poets will give it a try. If they do, they should tweet their results to #love_ku, and let her know about it @clcpoet.
Two indigenous women gave us a taste of our upcoming indigenous poetry event. Charmaine E. Elijah, who is organizing the feature, described in her reading something of what it's like to grow up indigenous in a whitewashed world. (Her hour-long event will be held either May 4th or in our upcoming season. -- A one-off event that includes a number of people is much more difficult to organize than are our normal single-poet features.) The second indigenous poet to take the stage was Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy. Her narrative poetry brought to vibrant life native stories and mythology.
The rest of us poured forth our souls in poetry as diverse as our lives.
The following gallery includes a selection of our open mic readers.
The March open mic, on one of the last cold days of winter, was exceptionally warm and personal from beginning to end.
Featured poet Andreas Gripp's readings are always warm and personal, but this time, in his Q&A, he talked about aspects of his life few had known before. As did many of the open mic readers who followed him.
Carrie Connel, who was recently married to Gripp, expressed the love they share in her poetry, a passion which has resulted in her newly-minted form of haiku, the "love_ku". Carrie hopes fellow poets will give it a try. If they do, they should tweet their results to #love_ku, and let her know about it @clcpoet.
Two indigenous women gave us a taste of our upcoming indigenous poetry event. Charmaine E. Elijah, who is organizing the feature, described in her reading something of what it's like to grow up indigenous in a whitewashed world. (Her hour-long event will be held either May 4th or in our upcoming season. -- A one-off event that includes a number of people is much more difficult to organize than are our normal single-poet features.) The second indigenous poet to take the stage was Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy. Her narrative poetry brought to vibrant life native stories and mythology.
The rest of us poured forth our souls in poetry as diverse as our lives.
The following gallery includes a selection of our open mic readers.
