The Washington, DC area offers a rich diversity of poetry events -- workshops and readings, contests and conferences. An excellent way to find out what's happening is through the online listing, Beltway Poetry News, maintained by editor and poet Kim Roberts. One of the very active DC poetry organizations is The Word Works whose board chairperson, Karren Alenier, is also a fine poet.
Last week I enjoyed one of Karren's readings -- at Café Muse in Friendship Heights Village Center. On May 7 Karren read from her recent collection, On a Bed of Gardenias: Jane and Paul Bowles (Kattywompus Press, 2012). These poems were exciting to hear -- they are part of an opera libretto that Karren is working on -- but not mathematical; thus, I turn back to one of her earlier poems, "Dialectic of the Census Takers," for presentation here.
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