TROIS POÈTES SONT VENUS POUR NOUS!

Michèle Blanchet (front, left), Monique Laforce (front, center) and Richard Fournier (in back on right) came from Quebec City to give three poetry readings on both sides of the Quebec/Vermont border. They came across to Vermont on Saturday, Nov. 13 after a drive down from Quebec City. This picture was taken after their second reading, at the Barton Public Library. With them is Toni Eubanks, librarian for Barton and Glover (front, right) and also yours truly, Sylvia Manning (in back, in black). They had already given a wonderful first reading at the Bread and Puppet theatre in Glover, from which we have no pictures here but some very good ones in a review in the Orleans County Chronicle of Nov. 17, 2010.




Here the three poets stand in front of Resto Millie's in Stanstead, Quebec. Their last reading, billed Brunch & Poetry, was here, just barely back across the line. This reading was filmed, so we hope to have a link to that video.

It was beautiful. Everything. The poems, the weather, the way people listened, the way they responded, the graciousness of Elka and Peter Schumann, Toni Eubanks, Bashar at Resto Millie's, Nancy Nourse with RythmeBeat. Tous. Merci beaucoup.

En Fin

Hello at last,

Here near the Quebec border in Vermont I'm not connected to the internet; I come to the little public library to use a computer. That's part of why I haven't entered much here, though I have pictures of when my dear friend Danelle came from Texas and went with me to Quebec City, and certainly I have poems and pictures from other visits made there since I came back north in late July. It's something about reality, something about grief.

But I have to mention that Monique Laforce Virgule Poète, Michèle Blanchet and Richard Fournier are coming to Barton and Glover to read their poems in French (with some English translations). They will read once at Bread and Puppet,in Glover, then at the Barton Public Library, and the next day at Resto Millie's in Stanstead.

Tout semble difficil. Il n'y a pas une fois quand tous les choses dont j'ai besoin sont ensemble, et alors je n'ecris pas beaucoup ni ici ni chez moi. Mais, ceci est important pour moi, que mes amis nous visitent, et je crois aussi pour la region, alors ... la poster au-dessous n'est pas correct, par example. Richard FOURNIER n'est pas Fourtier, et nous n'avons pas un lecture au Runaway Café, mais ...je l'ai fait en PAINT et je ne sais pas comment le changer.

ceci est quelque chose, quelque chose de poésie ... et des amis de la ville de Québec, la belle ville.