Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club
Andy Brown on stage at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York City. Visited on May 19, 2019.
C. suggested we go to this open mic at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. I came up for a couple days to hang out and watch him do stand-up. I thought it’d be cool to find someplace where I could read from the manuscript I’d just finished. They’re a bunch of prose-verse hybrids in the form of toasts.
So we went to Bowery Poetry Club, paid a few bucks to get in. The featured reader was Shay Alexi. I thought that was pretty cool since as a subscriber to the to the Glass Chapbook Series, I’d just finished reading her book, Diary of a Ghost Girl. She gave a great reading — I admire poets who have their poems memorized. I think it makes for a much better performance. After her set, it was open mic time. I read the piece, “A Toast to New Moles on Old Bodies.” I’m not going to publish it here because I’m still submitting it to journals, but it’s a part of this manuscript tentatively titled Antithetoasts.