Poetry Alive in Hickory - September Edition

Lots of good stuff tonight, and as usual, the best part was the gathering together of poets to speak, think, feel and spread their wings for a trip to amazing places in the human psyche. It was generally an evening spent on the dark side of that psyche, but still brilliant in the light that was shown in places too often avoided.

Pat Riviere-Seel read from her book The Serial Killer's Daughter. Powerful, touching, pulling stories. Riveting in the revelations surrounding the execution of a plan that resulted in the accidental death of hopeless victims.

Molly Rice told stories beyond belief, of a world known to only a very few people - at least, I hope. It was a great science-fiction horror tale of trapped humans and their trapped children. Unintended victims of corporate textile mills, long-term pain and prescription drug overdoses. Stories of the unpaid costs that wound up as profits in the pockets of the elite but also to the spirit of humanity which endures and which could lead us to create a better world.



To see Jessie Carty's video of the reading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5tZDhePR6Y