Reading

I was invited to read at the So and So series on Saturday night. It was exciting, as it was my first non-school public reading. I was more nervous than I usually am at reading, so I hope I didn't bore anybody. I read with two of my Emerson classmates and a fellow who's a Stegner fellow at Stanford this year.

Reading some of my poems, I realized what a tool public reading can be in crafting poems. I'm not talking about seeing what the audience likes and doesn't like and then revising accordingly. I just noticed as I was reading that sometimes I felt there were parts where I didn't feel honest. Those were the parts that aren't done, or else I would be more confident about them.

It was fun, though, and it certainly appealed to the Leo in me.