That is one of many things learned yesterday at the Book Cellar’s Poetry Night in honor of April being National Poetry Month. Suzy had the audience jointly compose two haiku, just to make sure everyone was warmed up before the show began. The second one went: “Between my shoulders/stardust lingers in my mind/Refrigerator.” See? Perfect.
The audience listened… 
…attentively: 
Laura vanProoyen read… 
….followed by me and special guest, Puppet EG, a test run for Poets and Puppets in Brooklyn in May. Here we are, making our puppet faces: 
Next up was Richard Fox… 
…then Kate Dougherty… 
…and bringing it all back home with a poem about rhinoceri was Robert McDonald: 
Thanks to Suzy for curating, and to everyone for coming out!