Andrew Periale
Evolving the Conversation
a salon in the exurbs
the featured guest teasing
mysteries out of the cheese plate
we’ve looked up liminality
(at least once) our ideas projected
on the tent of evening
the inspired jibber-jabber
juking the giddy light
of our little white nights
the free flow of booze
de rigueur, igniting
the luminaria of our “aha!”s
Andrew Periale is an Emmy-nominated artist, and has toured throughout the US as actor and puppeteer. He’s been the editor of Puppetry International magazine for 36 years, and has written plays performed around the country. He served for four years as the Poet Laureate of Rochester, NH. His poetry has appeared in Light Quarterly, Yellow Medicine Review, Entelechy International, Burnt Bridge and others, as well as in numerous anthologies. Once everyone has been vaccinated, he will continue touring solo with Mano-a-Monolog, and Forman Brown, New Hampshire’s Forgotten Poet.