Thanks for asking, Susan. In my clear-eyed, objective opinion, Terese and I rocked the house.
Orwn Acra was in the audience. He has co-featured with Terese at Carmine Street Metrics, and no doubt wanted to make sure I was up to the task. Daniel Brown was there, too. (The good poet, not the bad Vatican conspiracy novelist.) I don't believe he's a member here, but I'm sure a number of us admire his poems and have met him at various readings and conferences.
The Montauk Club is located in a brownstone just off Flatbush Ave. Stained glass windows and other touches of elegance. The grandfather clock just outside the reading room is such an attractive piece that Terese and I didn't even mind being interrupted by its loud chiming. It goes off every 15 minutes, so some of the open mic readers, doing just 5 minutes apiece, didn't have to deal with it. But with our 20-minute sets, we were sitting ducks.
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