Cafe de Poetry

"Cafe de Poetry"

We meet the last Friday of each month for lunch- a "brown bag event". We also share poetry orally- either someone's original poems or ones published by others. I often use poems by Helen Steiner Rice and funny ones from such books as Kid's Pick the Funniest Poems.

We had a smaller than usual group today even though the group "voted" last month to have our monthly meeting today despite it being the Thanksgiving weekend. No matter. Those of us who came still were blessed with meaningful poems. The poem "Over the River" was also shared orally as no one volunteered to sing it. Since I will be visiting family in Miami Beach, Florida, next month we won't be able to meet again until January.

The collection of poetry books on the shelf in the picture came in handy today as a couple of the participants hadn't had time to bring something from their home to share. We are a very informal and friendly group. I encourage other librarys or groups to try such an event. It really is uplifting and as one of our members has said it is like "an oasis" in her monthly schedule of events.