Cafe St. Andrew

So a few Sundays ago I’m in the church hall observing the joyous post-service quaffing of coffee and snorking down of jelly doughnuts, and I sez to myself, “Self,” I sez, “you know what this place needs?  Poetry!”  Yeah, you heard right – poetry!  I was thinking how great it would be to host a autumn poetry cafe right there in the church hall, a Saturday afternoon of readings from Black Moss poets and friends.  I approached my beloved publisher, Marty Gervais, about it and he’s all for it, but I won’t be able to confirm the readers’ list until he comes back from Cuba.  (What’s he doing in Cuba, you ask?  That’s something else I want to talk to him about.)  But we have confirmed the date, Saturday, October 15th, at 2:00 pm., and although everyone is welcome to attend, we’re going to extend a special invitation to the senior English and Creative Writing students at the local high shcool to come to the readings and speak to Marty afterward about writing, publishing, and studying creative writing at the university level.  (In addition to co-owning the longest run small literary press in the country, i.e. Black Moss Press, Marty also teaches creative writing at the University of Windsor.)  It’s not too soon to mark your calendars poetry lovers, and rest assured I’ll post new details as they become available.