Join Marissa Michel on Zoom!
When: Thursday, February 4th, 2021, at 6 pm EST
Where: TinyURL.com/VirtualBard to reach us on Zoom
If required, please enter the Meeting ID 759 062 6042
And below is a sample poem from our featured poet:
The Perfection of Language
I sometimes confuse my grandmother's voice
With the ferocity of oceans
With the dignity of lions
With the rumble of race car engines
The way her tongue coils like a snake
Sometimes a copperhead, ready to strike
And unleash creole like rapid fire
Sometimes a boa
Creeping in the shadows
Willing to choke the air out of you just
By being in her presence
Her vocal cords must be made of steel
The way they embrace the thunder when she fills the house with sound
It is only at night
When the wind rustles the trees
When the crickets chirp in the low grass
She is quiet
She tells me she envies the smoothness of my speech
How I never trip over my words
Or get twisted in my sentences
I yearn to tell her how I envy her speech
How I wish her words did not claw and scratch and resist finding a home
behind the bars of my teeth
She mutters english words under her breath
Listens to the American TV until dawn
Carves away the sharpness in her tongue
Chisels the powerful snakes into imperfect flowers and
Labours over the perfection
Of language
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RETURN OF OUR POETRY OPEN MIC!
Also, we are thrilled to be bringing back our open mic, after this reading, similar but slightly differently to past in-person readings we hosted for years.
If you would like to participate in our limited open mic following the presentation by our February 2021 featured poet, please send an email to Patti Ross, Berks Bards' current host, at par.media1@gmail.com, no later than Friday, January 29, 2021, with "Berks Bards open mic" in the subject line.
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