5 Women Poets too academic
Accidental Pentameters and Occasional Words," performed at the John Waldron Arts Center Saturday, marked the annual performance of "Five Women Poets", a 28-year-old writer's group that has actually grown to include eight poets instead of five. The basement of the JWAC where the event was held, boasted hard wood floors and an intimate seating capacity of approximately 50 people, which was the perfect size for the event. But the fact that the poems were delivered behind a white podium with flowered plants positioned around it, gave me the feeling of being in church listening to a sermon rather than a poetry reading. That's not to say the poems themselves were necessarily sermons, but rather, the spoken delivery of "Five Women Poets" tended to be a style doused with academic flavoring.
