Gloria Vando - joined by her mother and daughter - rounded out three generations of talent at The Writers Place on New Years day for the first annual read-a-thon. More on Gloria here.
Gloria's mother, Anita Velez charmed the crowd.
Gloria's daughter, Anika Paris was sassey, brassy and classy as she read of New York exploits. More on Anika here.
The event ran from 1 p.m. till midnight. I was there from 1:00 till about 8:45 p.m. The talent was pretty consistent throughout my presence and the event stayed remarkably on target time-wise. I can't speak to how the late night crew was, but those of us there during the segment I was present offered an enjoyable event with a full range of poetry style and taste.
Here is moi - reading an epigram that I recently had published in the Park University Scribe. I did as I recall six or seven poems total.
I was joined by two other writer colleagues who belong to the Northland Writers group.
Scot Isom - one of the Northlanders took a break from a non-fiction book he is working on to join us.
Terry Weide another Northland member read from some of his "flash-fiction" and poetry.
There were far too many readers to mention all of them by name, but my hat is off to The Writers Place for putting this together. There were a steady stream of people in to hear us most of the day.
Sharon Eiker who organizes the monthly open-mic at The Writers Place patterned this off an event that has been ongoing in New York for many years. Her two very talented daughters Deborah Sweeney and Sarah Eiker also participated in the event.
Deborah Sweeney Singing - what a voice!
Sarah Eiker - both read her poetry and contributed greatly to the overall success as she helped organize Phi Theta Kappa's participation. This was their first service project for 2005. Great Job!!!
Looking forward to next year.
