Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Poetry Alive in Hickory, November 13, 2012..

Jakia Propst

A marvelous group of poets assembled tonight in Hickory at Taste Full Beans and blessed the world with expanded horizons and deepened dimensions, and everybody lifted their wings and rose into glorious realms of new understandings and the entire world was clearly seen – briefly – for the very first time.  

At any rate, Nancy Posey, Helen Losse, Mel Hager, Scott Owens and “Versus” – Jakia Propst and Andrew Licout, two students from St. Stephens High School presented a stellar demonstration of really, really good poetry.  Versus gave us hard hitting stuff that opens your eyes, your emotional eyes, and your unconscious eyes, and shows you who you really could be.  Good.

Joseph Mills who teaches writing at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, then read from three of his books to finish a marvelous evening.   Mills had conducted a class in Taste Full Beans for poets just before the readings began. 

A good evening.  Thanks to Scott Owens and Taste Full Beans.