I almost attended the Narcotics Anonymous meeting elsewhere in the building.

[joannemerriam]

Tonight I went to the monthly open mic at the UU Church in Nashua. I read three poems from The Allotment: New Lyric Poets: "God Bless This Twenty Dollar Bill," "Auto Biographies" and "Throwing Signs." I was a bit nervous about reading a poem in which I talk about treating men like beetles you flip on their backs to torture them, since it was in a

Comments

[amelia_eve]

Sweet! It sounds like you are really enjoying NH and finding kindred spirits there. Congratulations.

[ouise]

Yay! I'm glad that they have the good sense to appreciate you properly. Auto Biographies *is* a fab poem - what did she say about it?

[joannemerriam]

That everything built on what came before while making you re-evaluate everything that came before, essentially.

[boomchica]

very cool...are you nervous if it was just an ordinary poetry reading event?
? what does chuffed mean?

[joannemerriam]

I'm always nervous when I have to get up and read in front of people.

Chuffed is British slang for happy/pleased. I picked it up from Mike Cowie.