Last night UW‘s English Society held a Bawdy House at the Walper Pub in Kitchener. It was the first reading I’ve attended in which I’ve actually read rather than simply been read to. I read two poems, “Jessica” and “A Portrait of the Poet’s Birthing-Bed,” and a newly completed short story called “Love in the Age of Insecurity,” which was very much in keeping with the spirit of the Bawdy House, and went over quite well. The audience laughed in all the right places, and gave me a very flattering amount of applause and post-reading kudos. I hope to attend more of these in the future.
