LIVELY WORDS

Session 4 

There’s something intriguing about seeing a poet read his work in a credit union parking lot at night. In Session Four, Travis Brown takes us there, while his poems transport us to scenes of the Midwest and beyond. This is the final part of a two-reading series in Portland, OR, choreographed and videotaped by Travis and Jill Stukenberg. Watching this session, I kept waiting for one of the people passing by to linger at the edge of the frame, to hang out and listen or to ask what Travis was doing.

For the year that Travis (aka, Boots) and I were classmates in New Mexico State University’s MFA program, he schooled me in new music. Now he schools me in fantasy baseball.