September 9, 2024:  I'm preparing for a possible Write & Release Spoken Word meeting on Wednesday September 11, 2024 at 7:30PM London time.  I have prepared two poems:  You'll Remember me in the Morning and My Entrails.

September 10, 2024:  Just today I learned that the Write & Release Spoken Word group is taking a break.  Therefore I will not be attending the meeting as I had planned!

August 13, 2024:  Woohoo!  Tomorrow is the day for Write & Release Spoken Word.  I have prepared two poems in my usual fashion.  They are 909 Church Street and For Magellan, Who Died Across the Sea.

July 10, 2024:  Today I attended another meeting of Write & Release Spoken Word.  It was great!  I'm gaining some experience.  And, although the video conferencing technology required for the Zoom meetings is still troublesome, I'm managing well enough.

I read two poems.  The first, "Reminiscing (in memory of Professor Hill, U of M, A2)", was written by a friend of almost fifty years ago, Lily Prigioniero.  I don't know when she wrote it, but she sent it to me today with the suggestion that I might read it.  Thank you, Lily!

The second poem, Illness, was one of my own which, by an interesesting exchange, I read once at Lily's request in a classroom where she was a student—perhaps Professor Hill's classroom!

June 9, 2024:  The next meeting of Write & Release Spoken Word is almost upon us (June 12 at 11:30AM San Diego time, but 7:30PM—London area).  I plan to read Swimming and Naked.

May 9, 2024:  Yesterday at 11:30AM (7:30PM—London area) I attended a virtual meeting of Write & Release Spoken Word.  It was great, especially since this was my first meeting in three months—one I missed and the next was cancelled.

There was lots of great poetry.  And I read the two poems I had prepared for March!

April 6, 2024:  I've been really busy, but I hope to attend the April 10, 2024 meeting of Write & Release Spoken Word at 11:30AM PDT.  Click "interested" on the webpage, if you would like to participate.  That should get the host's attention, so he can contact you with the details.

March 14:  I missed the Write & Release Spoken Word meeting that took place yesterday.  Frankly, I was too busy to give it the attention that it needed.  Plus there was some uncertainty—in my mind, anyway—about the starting time of the meeting.  This was due to Daylight Savings Time here in the US, which began on 3/10, and British Summer Time in the UK, which will begin on 3/31.

I had prepared two poems, Spider Bite, and Six Things You can Do with Two Stones, but sadly, as I did not attend, I could not read them.

February 13:  I'm making late night preparations for the 11:30AM meeting tomorrow of Write & Release Spoken Word.  I plan to read Chestnuts.

February 14:  It was a great meeting.  A dear friend of mine, David Victor, attended the meeting.  That all by itself made it special.  I read his poem, "Mirror (for Joseph and Debbie on the Occasion of Their Marriage)".

I also read Chestnuts, Jacuzzi, and I Love Your Eyes.

January 1:  I'm excited about the upcoming Write & Release Spoken Word event on 01/10/24.  I will read a poem that I co‐wrote with a non‐human named Pi.  The poem is called Let Me Out.

January 11:  The above event was a good one.  We had a larger turn out—ten men and three women.  I read Let Me Out as planned, and other poems were read at the event on complementary topics.  It was a modern meeting!

I read two other poems as well:  Peace and Rest and Indecencies.

December 12:  I plan to attend the Write & Release Spoken Word event tomorrow at 11:30AM PST.  I will read On the Ledge.

December 13:  I attended the above event, and it was fun!  There were nine participants—eight men and one woman.  The UK and the US were represented.

There was time enough to go around again, so I also read Fear of Ants.

I got in!  Thank you, Randy.  And I read my poem.  It was a worthwhile poetry event—I'm glad I attended.

At the open mic which followed I enjoyed hearing many others read, and I read as well.  I read my poem Fear of Ants.

Also there will be an open mic afterwards. I plan to read my poem Twirling Darling.  (This poem is about my wife when we first began to date.  She was a baton twirler and a Sophomore in high school.  I was a Senior.)

6:25PM:  It was a great meeting, and I heard some good poetry.  Thanks to host Deborah Ramos for putting this on!

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