Wednesday, April 29, 2009
To celebrate national poetry month, KU Libraries is hosting a Favorite Poems Open Mic Reading at 4 p.m. Thursday on the third floor of Watson Library. The event is open to the public and registration begins at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Julie Buchsbaum, librarian and poet, said she and other Watson staff members looked at what other libraries across the country were doing to promote poetry and discovered that many were having poetry readings.
To Buchsbaum, poetry is a way of thinking and being different in the world. She said there was a benefit from reading poetry aloud.
“When you are performing your work in front of an audience, you suddenly become aware of the language in an entirely new way,” Buchsbaum said. “It’s kind of like putting it under a microscope because you can guage from the audience’s reaction or lack of reaction whether it elicits any response or emotion from them.”
There is a five-minute time limit to read a poem and students can choose to read their own work or someone else’s.
This is the first year a series of events has been created to highlight National Poetry Month, said Rebecca Smith, KU Libraries director of public relations and advancement.
Smith said the ultimate goal was to highlight KU Libraries’ extensive poetry collection. She said the libraries had more than 28,000 books of or about poetry. Following the open mic reading, Buchsbaum will give a lecture on a long poem, “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,” written by American modernist poet Wallace Stevens.
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