Huzzah! for the first reading from POTELCOM: Global Telecommunication Giants of Poetry, organized by Shanna Compton and featuring Aaron McCollough. Technically flawless where I was, a lot of fun, and good to hear a few voices (Shanna's and Aaron's, Stephanie Young's, Katey Nicosia's) to place with blogs. I hope there's more to come.
Without the texts, and with my sieve of a memory (there's a reason I like rhyme and meter) I have nothing to add to the accounts from Stephanie and Katey except a very brief note on a couple of the formal aspects (surprised?) of Aaron's poems. Except for his final piece, he read pairs of poems, the first of each pair called "Letter from Prison" and the second called "Prisoners Read." The firsts were first-person, more discursive, with near-prose syntax, while the seconds were full of half-rhymes and inverted double phrases, strongly rhythmic. Water imagery everywhere, and he did a fine job of setting them up with a brief introduction. The last poem, "Confessional," came out of Herbert—by way of Lowell, Aaron said, though I couldn't hear that aspect. I could hear the ghost of the 17th century through everything, though Burton was missing. Maybe in other poems. Hey, I told you it would be brief. :-)
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