July's edition of POETRY ALIVE in Hickory was kicked off by Mindy Evans of Morgantown. She was lively, entertaining and her writing was very well delivered. Her performance was a great way to start an evening of entertainment.
Two featured speakers were on the schedule to follow after an intermission. The first was Margaret Booth Baddour of Goldsboro. Margaret primarily read from her new book Scheherazade, wonderfully weaving our common human emotions into a rich tapestry of elegant experiences and drawing comparisons between our own lives and that of great ancient fables. She also read from other of her writings and demonstrated different styles of poetry. 
The night was concluded by Jessie Carty from Charlotte, who read from her new collection At the A and P Meridiem, a beautiful connection of seemingly isolated events happening to seeming isolated people with the revelation that we are all bound together by these very events and this very sense of isolation. Jessie also videotapes the readings at Poetry Alive and the images from June’s meeting can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfXWeH4rXgg
What a wonderful way to spend an evening ANYwhere - this is one of the great reasons to come to Hickory on the second Tuesday of every month! But at any time, the TASTE FULL BEANS COFFEE SHOP
is a the place to be - they have art all the time and bagels, coffee, muffins, chocolate biscottes to dip in your coffee, and cookies and even more - yea! Come to Hickory, and stop at the the Taste Full Beans where you can find Art, Coffee and Poetry!(This photo will enlarge if clicked on)
