Guerilla Poetry organizer Brittany Renaud reading at the May 2016 London Open Mic. On Saturday, July 2nd, a group of poets from London Open Mic Poetry, joined by poetry fans, read at our first Guerilla Poetry event at Chapters Bookstore South. Some of us donned our black Guerilla Poetry t-shirts, and we migrated into the fiction section, there reading poems with drama to any and all browsers, dropping on them some of our own, but enjoying even more the chance to read aloud the masters, the way we each felt they should be read. Who gets to do that in public? And who ever gets to hear those great poems read aloud? Very few. We remember the silent versions, silent inside our heads, as we read them so long ago from a text for a class. Moving out of the fiction corrals, we stormed the children's section, grabbing large, colourful books from the shelves, and, with smiles all round, read long poems filled with rhyme, humourous word-play and laughter.
The reading was organized by Brittany Renaud, who had the most perfect poster made up in advance for backdrop and promotion, and who loved, especially, the possibility that the children playing there might stop, listen and enjoy. And how could they not?
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The reading was organized by Brittany Renaud, who had the most perfect poster made up in advance for backdrop and promotion, and who loved, especially, the possibility that the children playing there might stop, listen and enjoy. And how could they not?
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4 Barbara Green, Cambridge N Calvin Keenan and 2 others
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Cambridge N Calvin Keenan That's awesome Stan 🌞
Unlike · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 14:24
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