Last Tuesday we said a fond farewell to Poetry Month with Malvern’s first-ever Poets Picking Poets extravaganza. The event was organized by our very own Tyler Gobble (host of Everything is Bigger, which returns on May 14th), who assembled a sterling bunch of poets and then asked them to make a few difficult decisions…
Here’s how it worked: Tyler staged two poetry flights, with each flight consisting of four readers (much like a whiskey flight, a poetry flight offers an invigorating sampling of the good stuff—but with zero unpleasant next-day consequences). The two flights were led by Malvern employee Katherine Noble and W. Joe’s Poetry Corner host W. Joe Hoppe. They each read four poems: two of their own, a favorite poem by someone else, and then a poem by the poet they picked to follow them… and then the poet they picked to follow them would take over and read four poems… you get the drift? If not, the videos below will do a fine job of conveying the joyful and generous logic of Poets Picking Poets (and, as always, we also have a few photos up on our Facebook page). Sincere thank-yous to all the poets who took part—your picks were impeccable, and your generous sharing of such superb work was a fitting conclusion to an awesome month of poetry.
