Stars in a cloudy sky

Lights, lights, and more lights

A night full of life and lights!

Storm waits till after

On the day of the dead, the queen super moon sat on her throne, entertained by the plays, the songs, the dances, the arts, the lights, lights and more lights!  We condensed the donations of books into one red library on wheels: a little red truck orphanage for donated books to find a new home. Among the many who remembered us from last year, a friend told me she passed by repeatedly, waiting in vain to find a niche to squeeze into the crowd percolating through the books. Utilizing flashlight cellphones, browsers crowded the truck until the last hurrah while dancers reveled to San Antonio’s musical history and starry lanterns trickled away in the cloudy sky. Even the storm maintained a festive mood, kindly waiting until everyone left before raining down around us.

Both classes on the following Saturday were small and casual. Both provided great opportunities for writers to learn from and have their own work work shopped by published writers.  In Morin’s case, the zeal for poetry extended well into the El Mirador lunch.

Notes for Morin’s class:

Humor as a means to deflect the serious.

-mix contents

-exaggeration

-slapstick

-self-deprecation

Workshopped poems:

“Another Insane Devotion” Gerald Stern

“Ax” Charles Simic, from his book Selected Early Poems

“America” Tony Hoagland

“Dog Poem” Phillip Levine

“Workforce” James Tate

“Hatred” Wislawa Szymorska,

“Open Mic in Heaven.” Alan Shapiro, in his book Old War.

Referenced:

Rhyme’s Reason, by John Hollander

Poet Laureate to be Phillip Levine

Billy Collins

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