The first Penniless Poetry Series reading of the semester will be Thursday October 22 at 8pm at Meadows Coffee House on the St. Edward's University campus.The Penniless Poetry Series was created by Alan Altimont, Associate Professor of English, a few years ago as a way to keep the poetry community on campus active after losing funding for bringing in professional poets to read. However, the silver lining is that instead of paying poets to read their work, the Penniless Poetry readings feature students, which gives us young, unpublished poets a chance to share our work with our peers.
This semester, the English organization Sigma Tau Delta has taken over the series and plans on holding a poetry reading, featuring St. Ed's students and faculty, every month during the fall and spring semesters.
Thursday's poetry reading will feature my fellow Intermediate Poetry tutorial classmates Jake McCoy, Allison Mouret, and Ellie Douglass (it probably would have featured me as well, but I'm not sure where I was when this decision was made...)
Having read these students' work, I know that you'll be in for a creative treat. You'll also find a lot of variety from McCoy's humor to Mouret's vivid imagery to Douglass' short, but full-of-depth personal experiences.
If your Thursday night's looking empty, come enjoy a warm cup of coffee with a side of poetry and support your fellow students and the St. Edward's poetry community. A poet yourself? Open mic for anyone following the featured readings!
(And look out for a future Penniless Poetry reading featuring yours truly.)
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