St. Lawrence Area Poets

We attended Potsdam's Summer Fest on Friday & saw a few good bands.  We caught the 2nd half of Localmotiv, a local outfit specializing in mellow-rap, blues, & hip-hop.  They were followed by the Kyle Tupper Project, featuring Kyle Tupper on keys & vox, Drew Coles on sax & secondary vocals, Allen Darrah on drums, & Marshall (Mush) Hughes on bass.  Most of Kyle's band played pop-jazz.  They did a great job on The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," & finished up w/ a Tupper original, "11B," about the road heading east from Potsdam; it's a pretty funky number w/ a long instrumental introduction.  We finished the evening w/ the Sebatooth Sextet, a jazz combo featuring: Seba Molnar on sax, Sam Fuller on sax & clarinet, Kyle Tupper on drums, trumpet by Matt Bowman, Tim Savage on keys, & Dan Gagliardi on bass.  Was a great show, despite the torrential rain!

Not much poetry going on lately, at least nothing that's being written down.  I'll try to put out another SLAP poetry newsletter in August, & I've made tentative plans for a small reading at Jernabi's in Potsdam, possibly towards the end of July.  I'll keep you posted.

The next SLAP reading will be held on Tuesday, July 13th, at 6:30, in Canton, on the west side of town, in that little park they created a couple of years ago, near the bridge, near the site of the old TAUNY building, before they tore it down.  

Got that?  The Challenge is: write a poem w/ the opening line, "We wait all year for this."  I wrote mine a couple of days ago, so I can relax.   You probably can't.

See you next time.

Soundtrack: The Gin Blossoms

Beverage: Yuengling Lager

Weather: Hot but not too hot & sunny

Miscellaneous: Graduation party in Morristown

Contact John at ataraxia1114@aim.com