Thanks to the jurors (Elizabeth Cooper, Susan Edwards Richmond, and Mark Schafer), chapbook editors (Susan Edwards Richmond and Maggie Green), and fellow poets (Louise Berliner, Zachary Bos, Terry House, Franny Osman, Georgia Sassen, Corinne H. Smith, and Kirk Westphal).

Following the chapbook readings, headliners X. J. Kennedy and the Light Brigade read their brilliantly funny work.  The Plein Air Poetry project is sponsored by Fruitlands Museum and the Concord Poetry Center.

Cover Design by Mary Delaney, Photo by Mark Schafer.

I made a tile with a resonator guitar (the generic name for what most people know as a Dobro®) on it. I hope it will encourage at least one kid to find out more about this beautiful instrument.  Maybe we’ll see him or her play at the Ryman some day! Or maybe even better, playing with friends on somebody’s front porch.  I was glad that they installed my tile down at kindergartener level.  It’s in a different corridor from the above photo.

Tired of hiding your enthusiasm for the resonator guitar under a bushel? Resonator represent! Share your resothusiasm by wearing some resonator schwag from my new store, Wixward, at wixward.com or cafepress.com/wixward. So far, shirts and hats, some centered around the fictional community of Doborough, Mass., where the the local high school is the Resonatahs.  Yes, my fellow southerners, we do have a raving bluegrass scene up here.  Other schwag says “resonator.”  “I <3 Reso,” and “big tent bluegrass.”  P.S. Where does the name “wixward” come from?  In yet another geeky moment, I named it after my ham radio callsign, W1XW.