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It is Poetry Open Mic Night at the bb bistro (link and pic to the left) in Annapolis this Friday night. This is usually a LOT of fun! The cafe food is good and the homemade cookies, peanut butter and chocolate chunk, are excellent! The staff is very friendly and helpful. The setting is cozy and personal.
Here’s the skinny on Friday from Rocky Jones:
Ernie Wormwood (the featured poet) lives in Leonardtown, Maryland in the USA. Her poems have appeared in Rhino, The Antietam Review, The Little Patuxent Review, The Arabesques Review, and in Primal Sanities, A Tribute to Walt Whitman. In 2008 she will have work in The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Flights from the University of Dayton, the anthology Poem, Revised from Marion Street Press and in Poetic Voices Without Borders II. She recently appeared on Grace Cavalieri’s program for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., The Poet and the Poem, which can be heard at http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem.html
Ernie is yet another great writer from southern Maryland. She mixes great passion and great eloquence in her poetry; I have been a big fan since I met her at a bookstore in Leonardtown where she used to bring poets
together for group reads.
BB Bistro Poetry Nite, Friday, May 9, 6:30 - 8:30
112 Annapolis St.
Annapolis, MD
410-990-4646
DIRECTIONS PAGE: http://www.bbbistroannapolis.com/directions.html


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May 7, 2008 at 10:08 pm
edfromct
Ric, Thanks for the link to the audiocast of the “Gathering of Women”. I will listen to it when I get the chance. I did a google search and found the following by Ernie Wormwood that I really liked:
A Poem For Stanley - and for Lucille Clifton
When I grow up I want to be Stanley Kunitz
and wear sneaky tennis shoes wherever I want to wear them
flirt and dance with words so longingly they bloom in everyone’s
garden
where I touch them and they remember me.
I want to be Stanley
getting younger every year, especially
at Dodge telling about his index cards of meaningful, locked-in
circulating energy poems by Yeats Blake Hopkins Hardy that have no date
telling about the pastel portrait about his ever burning
cheek
the lonely growing where he was a living taboo
so we know someone else has felt that way too, but still flowered
into Stanley.
I almost forgot, I want to sit next to Maxine Kumin on the poetry shelf.
Stanley, this I promise, when I grow up to be you, I will
celebrate your birthday on July 29 every year maybe with Lucille
We will name you Flower and Gift and Poet
Most of all we will call out
“Beloved “
for Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
Can you see us up on the roof
of the red brick building
at the foot of Green Street
waving to you?
May 7, 2008 at 10:15 pm
samwrites2
Ric,
I sincerely hope I can make a “Journey to Ernie” Friday but I work in Sterling until 8:30 p.m.
Can you describe the scene for me afterward if possible?
-Sam
May 8, 2008 at 12:45 am
tam
Are you sharing on this night too? I would love some day to hear you in person!
what a gift that would be!
Have fun!
May 8, 2008 at 8:12 am
ric booth
Ed, That IS a cool poem. Thanks!
Sam, Last time they videotaped me performing My Friend and put it up on YouTube. This Friday… who knows what will happen there. But I will, at the very least, blog about the night… well, and the light.
Tam, Yes indeedie. I am thinking maybe Life was so simple before I died or maybe While the World Burned and The Prettiest Shackle. I’m not sure yet. Thanks.
May 8, 2008 at 2:01 pm
lazrus2
I vote for “Life Was So Simple Before I Died” although it would be a long one to quote from memory (are ‘cheat sheets’ allowed =)? Another video post would be great too!
I especially like:
annoyed i saw You would not pass me by
like a rock You stood there by my side
so i looked an’ saw You hangin’ up there
then i broke my own rules…i started to care.
and
addicted aversion to all things bad
what makes You bleed now makes me sad.
i called my sin my love, my fun
now it has lost; in my place, You’ve won
Powerful!
D-
May 8, 2008 at 2:16 pm
ric booth
Hey D,
Thanks for the vote. I have slammed this one at the Amaranth Coffee House at the local Comm College. During that performance the room became very quiet I had focused attention from everyone. Afterward one of the students complemented me with, “Wow. I thought Robert Frost was good!”
Then he admitted, with a chuckle, to being a pot-head. So yeah, my roller coaster ride continues.
May 8, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Selena
Ric,
you should get a youtube account and place your live poems there!
May 8, 2008 at 7:11 pm
ric booth
Selena,
I did start one but it is pretty pathetic so far.
Just don’t tell anyone yet: http://www.youtube.com/user/RicBooth56
May 8, 2008 at 7:42 pm
tam
WOW Ric - Whatever you choose it will be amazing!!!
I’ll take some time tonight and read through them tho…
May 9, 2008 at 2:15 am
lovewillbringustogether
Apologies but i won’t be able to make it Friday
Have a great night and go easy on the beer - oh! Wait… you like Michelob Ultra huh?
No need for the warning then
Go ‘Wild’ Dude
<B
May 9, 2008 at 9:03 am
ric booth
I can’t believe your standin’ me up on this one! And its a dry cafe so I will be drinking water. (Water is my beverage of choice at open mics.)