My Sense and the City column in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune is all about poetry, local poetry readings, and what’s going on at Booker High School Performing Arts … .
Read it online at http://www.ticketsarasota.com/2011-03-02/section/nightlife/hard-words-easy-listening-poetry-abounds

(find out where local poet Su Byron will be reading her “hard words” by clicking on the image above)
For some of us, though, poetry is as necessary to a life well-lived as a good Camembert, crusty baguette, and bottle of red are on a rainy Friday night. Maybe not something you want to imbibe every day, but surely once in a while.