earlier this week, i hosted a poetry reading at walnut woods in boyertown and featured shirley reifsnyder as a special guest from my first volume in this project. shirley is a resident at walnut woods.
everyone in the audience had large print copies of shirley's poem to read and follow along with as i read it. poems are a lot easier to take in and appreciate when you can not only hear them but also take them in visually as they're spoken.
photography during the reading was kindly courtesy of jessica gumbert who helped to coordinate the event.
since shirley hadn't been a part of the project since the initial year in 2015, an afternoon of delving back into her textile mill memories made for a nice way to end the day.
and an employee of walnut woods brimmed with excitement over hearing about poetry happening in the building, so she also attended. to keep poetry pushing forward positively across everything, she recited a poem by memory, one which she wrote about her father. it involved end rhyme, a nice variation of difference from my style, and with charming literary wit and evident affection for her father who she greatly misses.
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