Elizabeth Iannaci and Rick Lupert stunned and amazed us at Beyond Baroque's First Sunday reading on July 1, 2001. Brendan Constantine, our suave host, was fresh back from Turkey but raring to go. Can't tell whether he added any silver hoops on his sojourn but neither the trip nor the jet lag impeded his unabashed laughter as Elizabeth launched into "Taking Off Brendan Constantine's Clothes". Sorry, no explanation. You just should have been there... Seems to have been a theme, as Rick read from (among other things) his recent chapbook "Up Liberty's Skirt". The man is a master of deadpan. As usual the variety of open readers was inspiring, ranging all the way from some fine surrealism to (gasp) meter and rhyme. One poet read a piece about meeting the most beautiful girl in the world, in France, so many years ago. It turned out to be Elizabeth (no surprise there). Probably due to the headliners the theatre was packed, even though the poetry kicked off at the ungodly hour of 5:00 p.m. But we poets LIKE being trapped inside a black box on a perfectly gorgeous and hot summer day. It makes us happy.Until next time and may the universe bless Fred Dewey and Billy Collins, Frankie
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