International Imaginarium For Word & Verse (November 29, 2022)
Paul Szlosek (Photo Courtesy of Robert Eugene Perry ) PAUL: Hello everyone! I want to welcome you all to the very last International Imaginarium For Word & Verse of the year 2022. I hope all of you (who celebrate it) had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you have recovered sufficiently enough from your Turkey Day feasting to listen to some amazing poetry tonight. As I peer out into the audience I see we have a rather intimate group of under a dozen people gathered here this evening, and I want to thank you all for joining us on this chilly late Autumn night when you could have been cozy and warm in your own homes instead. We have such an incredible feature for you tonight, a very good friend of mine and one of the very first poets I met when I was first introduced to the Worcester-area poetry community close to thirty years ago. I’m sure many of you are already familiar with her, but for those who are not, Eve Rifkah is the multi-talented poet, writer, journalist historian,