Poet Laureate 8: Cedar Valley Unitarian Universalists

On 5 January 2025, I had the pleasure of making a poetry presentation at the Cedar Valley Unitarian Universalists at Cedar Falls, Iowa. I didn't have a topic per se, but just presented some poems from my book Dragons & Rayguns. I created a handout to distribute that showed four poems, including the two concrete poems in the book. The goal was to introduce the audience to speculative poetry (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) as well as to different types of poetry: the curtal sonnet and carmina figurata. Here's the handout (click on each image to see it larger): Besides the poems in the handout, I also read others from Dragons & Rayguns. There was lively discussion afterward, with plenty of interesting questions. Here are some photos from that event (click on each to see it larger). Many thanks to Al Hays for organizing this event. Wonderful audience, thank you. Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ