International Imaginarium For Word & Verse (July 29th, 2024)
Paul Szlosek (Photo Courtesy of Robert Eugene Perry) PAUL: Hello everyone! I want to welcome you all back to the International Imaginarium For Word & Verse after being away for over an entire year. I do apologize to everybody for taking such an eternity for putting this edition of the Imaginarium together, and especially for my constant postponing, changing it from May to June then July. Since we’ve seen each other last, my life has been a whirlwind of things happening, both good and bad but I’m so glad to announce that things seem to have calmed down a bit for me at last. I am so grateful to be able 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 unexpectedly cool and damp summer evening. Thank you for joining us, I missed you all so much! We have such a wonderful feature for you tonight, Kate Gregoire , a very talented poet from Worcester, Massachusetts