There is always the meditation time that I appreciate. Wednesday was a somewhat free day so I biked around for most of the morning At noon Bobbie Louise Hawkins, one of the elder performance poets gave a very practical session on how to approach reading poetry in public and performance work. She was wonderful.
At 4pm we met with two men outside the Ginsberg Library and they talked about a project they have started a few years ago called Fallen Fruit Project. They map neighborhoods for fruit trees that hang over or our on public land, of course in many cases being wasted and pick the fruit in working with neighbors. They have an event called " a Jam festival" where hundreds of folks come to an art place and make Jam for all people.
Check out there site: www.fallenfruit.org it is quite interesting and fun.
The Scholarship Recipient''s Reading was Wednesday night and quite moving. Two Native students were very good and one woman read a series of poems about her dad's journey and theirs with Alzheimer's. I have recordings of these.
I was working on my reading for Friday night, and the second draft draft of the piece above. Hard to believe this week is half way.
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