The International Imaginarium For Word & Verse

Paul Szlosek  During the Last Full Moon PAUL: Good evening, folks! Welcome to our Halloween-themed edition of the International Imaginarium For Word & Verse (we were originally going to call it “The Scarymaginarium”, but that doesn’t exactly roll easily off the tongue). Unlike a regular edition of the Imaginarium, tonight we will have no featured poet, but just an open mic divided into two sections separated by a short intermission during which you can check out the photos in our special Imaginarium Halloween Photography Exhibit. As you can see, we have a rather small group gathered here with just 3 people on our sign-up sheet for the open mic, so tonight’s poetry show will most likely be fairly brief. Before I call the first poet in our open mic to the stage to read, I will kick off the show with a short poem appropriately titled “Halloween” by a little-remembered early 20th century poet and journalist from Kentucky named Edwin Carty Ranck : Halloween A night when witches skim the