Poetry Night lights up Temptation Restaurant
Photos
Eleven readers paraded to the microphone during the Royal Palm Players' traditional Poetry Night Jan. 28 in the Temptation Restaurant Caribbean Room.
Participants read original poetry or poems with special meaning for them. Most signed up in advance but the microphone was open to all comers.
"The evening provides a chance for the community to come together and to be entertained, provoked and enlightened by the power of the written and spoken word," said Charlie Tyler of the RPP.
Many ate at the Temp prior to the 8 p.m. event when Michele Strauss, RPP managing artistic director began introducing each reader. Readers included: Ann Fletcher, Alice Goyert, Dan Headington, Sandy Jacobs, Suzanne Kimball, George Lynch, Nancy Lyons, Dick Robb, Jane Schlegel, Strauss and Tyler.
Jacobs, Kimball, Lynch and Robb read original work. Jacobs read an original haiku and a poem titled "Rapport." Kimball read an excerpt from a novel she is working on, while Lynch and Robb read their own poetry.
Among Lynch's selections was a humorous poem about a day on Dearborn Street in Englewood. Robb read a poem about being a newcomer to Boca Grande. Headington and Tyler both read poems by Barbara Mooney, a local poet who helped start Poetry Night and the Live Poets Society.
Fletcher read a sharp, humorous poem by Jeffrey Harrison titled "The Fork."
Strauss read a lovely, lyrical piece called "Sighs of the Heart." Schlegel read a poem by Sherman Alexi on airplanes and Lyons read poems by local poets James Grady and Lindsay Major.
Poetry Night was produced by Strauss with sound and lighting by Alex Newberry.
Facebook
MySpace
Digg
Stumble
Mixx
Fark
del.icio.us
LiveSpaces
