"Next Great Writers" Reading

Read a couple of poems on Friday as a finalist in the "2009 Next Great Writers" competition sponsored by the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington. As always, the Carnegie Center in Lexington created a great forum for writers to read their work. It was great to hear things from people I knew (James Vincent, Eric Sutherland) and several others I did not. The first place story was by a young man named James Grant and I thought both the story and his reading of it were very fine.