International Imaginarium For Word & Verse (May 3, 2023)
Paul Szlosek (Photo Courtesy of Deborah Jane Mitsakos ) PAUL: Hello everyone! I want to welcome you all back to the International Imaginarium For Word & Verse after being away for an incredible six months. I do apologize to everybody for taking such an eternity for putting this edition of the Imaginarium together. Since we’ve seen each other last, my life has been a whirlwind of things happening, both good and bad. As you probably heard, I recently caught COVID (I suspect it was at a poetry event in the real world which shows the advantages of hosting this poetry reading completely in our combined imaginations) which totally wiped me out for quite some time, but I’m glad to announce, I have recovered at last. I’m so happy to be here tonight as I peer out into the audience and see a rather intimate group of under a dozen people (of both familiar and unfamiliar faces) gathered here on this rather cool spring evening. Thank you for joining us, I missed you al...