This was a great poetry reading.
I went with Jack and Kate–we had fun signing in and exploring the Casa Romantica which is completely fantastic. It was the kids first poetry reading. The crowd was a fun group of poetry insiders and high school kids.
Colette was in fine voice and read mostly from her book–a few new poems were thrown in. Read live her poems are much more personal and do not seem as ironic as they do when I read them–a great way to see some of these poems which I might have missed. Her “theme” was Movie Poems, which are some of her best–I really liked the V for Vendetta reading coming from a speaker labeled I-V!
Stepanie Brown also read–fun mostly modern works by a library assistant that I could really relate to.
There was not a lot of audience interaction and the question portion of the program was not all that eventful.
A great reading, at a great venue.
David Given Schwarm 
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