The Beyond Baroque Open Reading had a nice sunshiny feel. Which is quite an accomplishment for a black box theatre space. One of the features, Shelley Berger, had brought her young daughter, Zola, and several of her friends straight from a birthday party. They really livened the place up. Shelley told us that she thought this kind of exposure to poetry would inspire the kids to want to write some themselves. And to prove her point, her lovely daughter read to us some of her own poems (my favorite line was "my heart has a heart").
The other feature was Betzi Richardson, who read some wonderful poems as well. Betzi runs the bi-weekly poetry reading at Beyond Baroque. Do check that out. It sounds pretty cool. They read the works of a different poet at each meeting and then discuss.
Beyond Baroque's Open Reading is the first Sunday of each month at 4:45pm. Free.
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