I recently did my first public reading in a while along with other BlackTopppers at the Alt + Love Art Market at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Freddy Beach. Although personally I am as straight as the borders of Saskatchewan I'm an egalitarian right to the core and was happy to come out to support the GLBTQ community. I even wore my purple shirt just for the occasion. Oh, I know you're wondering about it, so the killer metal tie is by Trudy Gallagher http://www.bejewel.ca/. I got tons of great comments on the tie, Trudy.
I read my poem "God Bless an' Keep Thee, Rabbie Burns" in honour of the statue of Robert Burns recently being placed back in its rightful place on the Green in Fredericton after a 3-year absence (the delay is probably the reason I look angry in the photo Biff Mitchell took of me, or maybe I'm just reacting to spotting Biff with his camera :).
I think I managed to channel Rabbie's ghost reasonably well (again)... the only other time I've read this poem in public was on Rabbie's 250th birthday on Burns night in January 2009, and that time there was whisky and haggis in abundance, so his ghost was definitely present then!
