The salon downstairs has become too small to accommodate the monthly gathering. Today Richard Loranger suggested that we should take down the wall that separates the living room and Dore’s office so we might have more space. “Everyone brings a hammer to the next Salon!”
Mary Rudge, featured poet, gave copies of her poems out for the audience to “sound”. Different voices assumed different characters, all under the theme “Occupy”.
It was Anna Wolfe birthday. Steve Arnston brought over a yellow cake topped with two-inch-thick cream. We sang “Happy Birthday”. Last month was Susan Pedrick’s. I like it when people choose to celebrate their big day at the Poetry Hotel.
Marsha Campbell read from the proof copy of her new book. She was ecstatic, gave me one of her framed drawings, titled “Lust”. Jack and Adelle Foley read their choral piece “The Dance of the Seven Veils”. Sensuality crossed paths in the poetic minds.
Photo by Dore Steinberg.
