Why Life Can Be a Poem
or, The Hobart Festival for Women Writers, and Monday night readings at Stamford's Barnes and Noble
We every single one of us no matter our history our sexual proclivities no matter our favorite color our grandmother's name we look for hope hope is what human means
at the Hobart Festival for Women Writers small miracle small town 100 women come to write their words change a town these women write and talk and write and we all leave happier because of one another and all those words
later we drove to Stamford Barnes and Noble Monday poetry night big big windowless shopping mall parking lot a Kubrick movie we parked on 6FSouth imagine that but when people came in to sit on grey folding chairs in front of the half price salt candles polka dot water bottles (I would like to meet every person who bought a polka dot water bottle) when we all sat together hearing poems even the Stamford shopping mall Barnes and Noble became our words, all our words.