Great night, painful night

SPECTACULAR night last night at GotPoetry Live…

Possibly my favorite night so far. It was another poetry and music night, where Faro (and, hopefully, someday, other people as well) play back up music to poems.

Faro’s gotten really good at backing up spoken word, and it showed last night. It was a high energy night with a mix of silly and profound and strong poems from everyone.

April Ranger from the Cantab scene did a superb feature — local hosts, she has my highest recommendation. You can see the archived webcast of her feature here: http://www.blogtv.com/shows/27232 (Yes, we’re webcasting the reading now!)

This reading is kicking into an even higher gear, gang — come out and be part of it. We’re back on January 8 with new poem night.

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The painful part came when I took a bad fall at home later on icy steps and whanged up my back and shoulder but good.

OW. I can barely move my left shoulder today and have a solid line of pain across my back at the level of the lowest ribs where I landed on the leading edge of the bottom stair.

As I said earlier, OW.

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I mourn the loss of the Java Hut, and I hate the anguish its messy end has caused for some of my friends, but I’m thrilled for the soft landing for the Asylum at the Q. It’s a little smaller, but in these days of venues shutting down across the nation, it says something important about the Asylum that it will continue without a break because there were owners who were already saying “we want you guys” before it happened.

As javabill says, the Asylum is the people, not the place. We’ve moved before and thrived. We’ll do it again.

And I’ll be back.

Go read javabill for more info, and get the official details here: http://www.poetsasylum.org

Over and out.