…took place at Forte Framing & Gallery last night, and it was packed.  Each poem presented over the course of the evening got paired with a different beer and a set of tasting notes that were practically poems themselves. I read this poem from my Switchback book, Oneiromance…

….and then Mercy van Marter, the cicerone (aka the beer sommelier), offered these remarks…

…for this beer, Dogfish Head Festina Peche,  which tasted–appropos for a weird epithalamion–like “champagne gone bad”:

Also, here is why the feminist work that Switchback does–publishing work by women (which they define broadly to include transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, and female-identified individuals)–is so important: