Sturgeon's Law

I went to the River Styx reading series last night, at which Charles Harper Webb and Chelsea Rathburn read. Webb has a very engaging reading style that suits his poems. As someone who tries with intermittent success to be a little better than another somber, sonorous poetry reader, I appreciated how well he did for the most part.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that Chelsea remembered me from our brief meeting at West Chester two years ago. I also liked how unobtrusive yet effective the rhymes and meter are in her poems. I'd be listening, and then I'd start to follow iambs and think it was blank verse, and then I'd realize she was rhyming too. Lovely effect.