[Mark McDonnell]

I read some poems out loud to actual human strangers for the first time tonight, at an open mic in Leek in 'Brewce's Bar'. There were four people there. It felt amazing.*

Just wanted to mark the occasion.

Cheers!

Edit: * Emphasis on the subjective felt. There were moments that did, when I could feel the words of my own poems sounding new to me. I rarely read them aloud to myself above a whisper, let alone to people. Not much about the event could be called objectively amazing, it was all a bit awkward haha.