April is National Poetry Month

Poetry is alive in GSO.  The kick off to the Poetry GSO festival was held at The Depot last Friday afternoon.  Saturday evening at the Green Bean, another successful Poetry Jazz and Java was held.  This eclectic event sponsored by the Writer's Group of the Triad brings together music, poets and storytellers from all over the Triad.  To call this event simply a "Poetry Reading" does not do it justice.   The richness of the craft is shown off in the variety of presentations that come under the heading of poetry.  Towards the end of the night, Hal Sieber read some his own poetry, introduced a young poet whose work he admired, and acknowledged his own upcoming birthday with a story about his childhood.  On Sunday, Greensboro was given the treat of hearing Coleman Barks share the poetry of Rumi and his own works accompanied by the music of harp and cello.