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For those of you new to my f'list (and there are a few, I think), who don't know, The Art Garden is a literary event organized something like a magazine; the editor-cum-moderator sends out a specific theme to a select group of writers, and each writer creates a literary work based on that theme. It may be a poem, or a song, or an essay, or a memoir from childhood, or a comedy skit, or something else not quite definable. Each writer then sends his or her work back to the editor-cum-moderator who arranges the collection into a coherent entity, and presents it to an audience.
Only, in the case of The Art Garden, this literary magazine is presented on a stage, instead of on paper, and the writers gather for one night to read their work aloud to the audience who is sitting in chairs in front of them (not a huge audience--even in the new, bigger theater, it's no more than 80, or so). In the beginning, it was four times a year; now, it's two: the last Saturday in April, and the last Saturday in November. ... So guess where I'll be, this weekend! Anyway, this time 'round is unique, since it's the 20th anniversary special. The program will be double-length, and the writers will be reading their best work (or at least theirs, or the editor's favorite).
I started doing The Art Garden in December of 1989 (how to feel old, in five seconds), and the piece I'll be reading on Saturday is from June, 1990 (the year that movie came out, with John Goodman). I thought some of you might be interested in what I was like before I "met" any of you. So here it is:
( Why I did not go see 'Arachnophobia' )
PS. No, another spider has not decided to do that, yet.
Only, in the case of The Art Garden, this literary magazine is presented on a stage, instead of on paper, and the writers gather for one night to read their work aloud to the audience who is sitting in chairs in front of them (not a huge audience--even in the new, bigger theater, it's no more than 80, or so). In the beginning, it was four times a year; now, it's two: the last Saturday in April, and the last Saturday in November. ... So guess where I'll be, this weekend! Anyway, this time 'round is unique, since it's the 20th anniversary special. The program will be double-length, and the writers will be reading their best work (or at least theirs, or the editor's favorite).
I started doing The Art Garden in December of 1989 (how to feel old, in five seconds), and the piece I'll be reading on Saturday is from June, 1990 (the year that movie came out, with John Goodman). I thought some of you might be interested in what I was like before I "met" any of you. So here it is:
( Why I did not go see 'Arachnophobia' )
PS. No, another spider has not decided to do that, yet.
