Bagels with the Bards #12

The Bagel Bards is a group of poets and writers founded by Doug Holder and Harris Gardner thirteen years ago. Writing poetry can be an isolating experience. Poetry is not exactly the go-to arts and entertainment experience for most Americans. We don't honor our poets the way they do in Latin America where poets are appointed as diplomats. Anyway the Bagel Bards meet each Saturday morning at Au Bon Pain in Davis Square Somerville MA. There we discuss everything from poetry to basketball and in doing so foster a community of writers. One of the bards Gloria Mindock is the current Poet Laureate of Somerville. Another Zvi A. Sesling who edits this anthology is the Poet Laureate of Brookline. What all these poets have in common is a love of language and poetry and within these pages you'll find a wide range of poems that manifest that.