If you’re reading this on a Thursday, drop everything you’re
doing and go to Artomatic NOW. Maria Padhila has been hosting “Happy Hour Open
Mics” at the People’s Stage. The second one is Thursday, June 14, and it
features Cliff Lynn (another of our participants), Dallas Corsair, John
Scheinman, volunteers, cookies, and you, should you want to read. The last of
Maria’s events--for this year, anyway--will be on Thursday, June 21, and will
feature Justin Cameron, Pamela Murray Winters, Caryn Sykes, David Beaudouin,
and Miles David Moore. (And volunteers, and cookies, and you.) Both events run
6:30 to 8 p.m., allowing even oldsters like me some time to run out and see the
dBs afterward.
Q. When did you start writing poetry?
A.Summer 2007. Before that I only wrote fiction and
journalism and columns. I believed only people who have had a lot of college
and beyond could write poetry.
Q. How do you define poetry?
A. That would be one of those college-and-beyond questions.
Q. What would you choose as your last meal?
A. Mac and cheese, greens, and rice and gravy from this
barbecue place in Lanham.
Q. Where are you from, and what is your spiritual homeland?
A. PG County, and Bahia (Salvador), Brazil. See, it even has
two names!
Q. If they made a movie of your life, what would be the
title, what would be the theme song, and who would play you?
A. "In the Realm of the Zone" (my friend Johnny
actually just wrote that phrase in a message), "Right Place, Wrong Time"
by Dr. John, and I wish it could be Farrah Fawcett or Whitney Houston.
Q. What's your sign?
A. Gemini 26 degrees ascendant, which is directly across
from the Galactic Core.
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