Written and Read

Krishna Sharma reads three original poems.

"Sunday Morning," original and unpublished.

"For the first time that day, I felt sad, for it seemed to me that the place where someone died should be special or noteworthy in some way and yet, for all my riding up and down the tow path, I didn’t see anything besides a few pieces of garbage and a family of deer on the opposite bank and none of it seemed special to me."

Marcus Changed talks poetry and reads several original poems.

"Follow Her," original and unpublished.

"My fear is unformed molten steel. It’s a knife, a jet engine, a crutch, whatever I need whenever I need it."

"The Simulator" is an original one-act play.

Characters

Ben: Nels Challinor

Aliss: Alexandra Duprey

"Loneliness," original and unpublished.

"His attempts to soothe her, his soft cooing words, his very presence, these only made her angrier and sadder. This time, he lies very still, looking at his long unbitten fingernails and counting the digits to ten."

Four original micropoems, unpublished.

"Candlemaker," previously unpublished.

"Our purpose, if we have one beyond the abilities we perform effortlessly thousands of times per day, is ethereal and divine. It is related to survival and beauty and the interrelatedness of all things. This is a fact that whoever wrote the employee handbook does not understand."

Dan Foley reads three original poems.

One original poem: "Gravity's Mistake"