Poetry Bus
The Poetry Bus stopped at Blink Gallery tonight on day (and city) #21 of 50.
It was a lovely little venue in back of Parliament and the Ottawa River under the canopy turning red for the 50 to 60 local poet folks gathered to hear poetry in the open air, with microphone, (and spotlight duct taped on when need arose). 8 or 9 poets read a variety of tones of works. Books to buy were back inside the gallery before and after. I got one book myself (Nice Hat, Thanks by Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer from Verse Press of Amherst, Massachusetts, 3 stops in the future for the bus)
Before and after the poets read, the Typing Explosion of performance art poets. The overhead projector (in foreground) set out rules for dealing with the typing pool. (eg. no rude language, touching the typists or jostling in line or be ejected without poem).
The ladies composed poetry from prompts written out and handed to them with a dollar from people lined up. Many showed off their improv sheet of poetry while chatting and relaxing in the poet-ery atmosphere.
Addendum More vivid description of the poetry bus event is by Amanda Earl.
[Image made with the Polaroid-o-nizer]
cool–looks and sounds like fun — thanks for sharing! 
It was a fun-filled event wasn’t it? The typing dames were a highlight.