HomeMy WebLinkAboutPoet Laureate Committee Minutes 01-15-2020 North Andover Poet Laureate Committee
Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Attendees:
Mark Bohrer
Gayle Heney
Jill Barker
Jessica Furtado
Karen Kline
Marie McAndrew-Taylor
Bridget Rawding
Welcome:
The meeting opened at 7:06 pm. Gayle welcomed Bridget
Rawding. Bridget afforded us a little biography.
Welcome, Bridget!
Update/discussion of Pop-up project
-review of assignments, including responses of approach
businesses
Gayle will invite the Gray Court Poets to attend.
Sunday, March 22, 2020, @ 2pm:
Goldenseal Apothecary, owner Hashim Azam,
Also World Water Day
Saturday, March 7, 2020, @ 2pm
Bulaers Veterinary Hospital
Sunday, March 29, 2020, or Saturday, March 28, @
2pm (needs confirmation)
YMCA
Friday, April 3, 2020, @ 8pm
Bikram Yoga studio
Kelly O'Hare, owner
Saturday, February 14:
Good Day Cafe will stay open after 2 pm
Mark Bohrer will do the following:
>contact the YMCA and Bulgers
>make flyers for each business
>receive poems through Facebook
National Poetry Month reception
-review plans
Reception will be held at the Stevens Memorial Library
on Tuesday, April 21 , 2020. Attendees will read one
poem on a first come, first serve basis
Karen: f lowers
Gayle: flat cake from Stop and Shop
Marie: drinks and paper products
Gayle: podium
Gayle: podium at each venue
Jim Knowles: microphone
North Andover Cam: Tape program?
>Need Release Form or Permission Slip
Discussion of Poet Laureate Mark Bohrer's extension of
tenure.
Mark will continue as North Andover's Poet Laureate!
Discussion of attendance at Town's Open Meeting Law
Training (2/4/20)
Karen Kline and Mark Bohrer
Other items for discussion, including announcements for
upcoming local poetry events.
Themes:
Goldenseal Apothecary
>health, ice cream, nostalgia
Bulgers Veterinary Hospital
>pets, companionships, love
Yoga
>wellness, serenity, community
Good Day Cafe, will stay open after 2 pm
>food, friendship, frappes
YMCA
>community, family, fun, sports
Set next meeting date and appoint secretary pro tem for
that meeting
Next meeting will be Feb 12 at 7 pm. Gayle will be
secretary pro tern in March 2020.
Closing poem
Mark Bohrer read:
People of New York
by Marshall James Kavanaugh
Dream Poet for Hire
December 29, 2019, Washington Square,, New York., NY
Open Avenue
Give a wide berth
To open horizons
So much potential
In every single
Person passing
A conversation
That could transport
You across
The seven seas
A chance meeting
That can
Connect you back to
Any point in history
All of us living out
Our New York minutes
The landmarks provide
A backdrop to such a diversity
Of human experience
Meeting adjourned at 8:21 pm.
Respectfully submitted by
Marie McAndrew-Taylor