Westland Reads Poetry!

Thank you to all of the writers who made our 1st annual Westland Writes Poetry book a huge success. Thank you as well to all of the contributing writers who came out to read their work. It was a lot of fun to hear the poems in each of the author's voice (especially for me since i spent so much time formatting the publication and reading and re-reading poems to make sure they came out looking as spectacular as they came in).

It was also fun to meet all of the writers and see them all interact after the reading (it was as if we all collectively thought, "there's more of us here than i thought"). There were many happy faces at the sight of the book and the author's name and words in print- family and friends enjoyed it, but the authors were certainly the proudest.

We even had the added bonus (some might say nerve-wracking or hair-raising bonus) of WLND filming the event and promising a production DVD for the library and also to air on cable access. So look for it in the library soon- and I promise to let you know as soon as I do when it will come out on cable. (if you would like to check the WLND site yourself, you can do this at: http://ci.westland.mi.us/communityrelations/32.html

I hope this event serves to propel the monthly poetry group forward and upward. I really feel like there is so much talent that can be shared and nurtured here that it'd be a shame for us to keep it to our individual selves. Our next poetry group is scheduled for next Wednesday, June 3rd (Meeting Room C, maybe we can explode out of our tiny space there).

There has been talk of creating a Fiction writing group here. If anybody else is interested, please email me (at andy.schuck@westlandlibrary.org) or add a comment here.