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Liquid Poetry 2; poets on street corners
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I guess because Eliot said: "April is the cruellest month," poets and lovers of poetry in the U.S. have it Poetry Month, marking an American celebration of the mind-bending art and craft.
Last year, Denver Poet Laureate Chris Ransick hosted what he calls "one heck of a poetry party" at the Wynkoop Brewery in Lower Downtown Denver, featuring a brew called Liquid Poetry that you could buy in a special take-home glass and contribute at the same time to Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, a worthy cause that does what it says. I still have two of the glasses in my kitchen cabinet. It was a heck of a party.
Ransick plans a re-run of the event this year on April 18 (if the date holds up), as well as a night for poetry reading on street corners in the Santa Fe Boulevard art district on April 3. That earlier date is more solid right now, so you can pretty much count on it.
The district holds monthly Friday Night Art Walks, when people walk into and stroll between the many art galleries in the district. On April 3, 2009, gallery visitors will be accosted on corner intersections of the district by scattered poetry-reading poets who will also try to hand people calendars that will list other events related to poetry that have been scheduled for the rest of the month.
Don't be cruel to the band of bards. I may well be one among them (I'll be in the leather hat). Take the calendar, listen to their poems and then, after visiting one or more galleries, even though it isn't yet April 18, you might still go buy a beer at the Wynkoop, which, of course, is the mayor's bar.
Liquid Poetry 2 is scheduled to be poured through the whole darned month, and you're likely to meet some sad poet quaffing it there to soften the edges of some imagined slight no matter whether it's Liquid Poetry night or not.
This time proceeds from beer sales will benefit the Colorado Anthology Project, a nonprofit initiative to gather together and present the state's greatest literature, past and present.
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