February Poetry Night at the Coffee Shop
We had a local poet come to our town square coffee shop to talk about his collection of poetry in his book Dust. Ethan Jacobs, a graduate of our high schools and Auburn University, shared his inspirations and writing processes, and he held an audience spellbound for a half hour with his poetry. What a gift! Ethan majored in Education but chose to follow his passion of woodworking as his career path. We are so proud of Ethan.
I’m especially proud of him because one year prior to his reading, I sat in this very room with him to record several YouTube shorts of him reading his poems when his book was still a dream coming together. It was a glorious moment to see him holding his published book in his hands as he shared with his audience of 16 people ranging in age from teenagers to attendees in their 80s. I’m sharing a couple of those clips at the end of today’s post (we made QR codes of the videos and placed them in small frames around our county so that people in restaurants or places of business could scan them and discover a poem; and a few were even hidden in plastic Easter eggs!).
We’ve decided on our town theme for National Poetry Month this year.
Awakenings.
It goes with our coffee shop, the hub of our sharing, and the rural spring buds and blooms and greening of the world waking from winter.
And, perhaps, it calls to the inner poet.
We gave attendees a time to write at the end of the evening. Here is my elfchen:
Awakening
awakening
sunshine streams
coffee brews ~ I
leap into life......caffeinated,
ready
Common Threads 