The 2006 and 11th Biennial
Waterloo Village, Stanhope, New Jersey.
September 28 – October 1, 2006
Part Five
Poetry In The Woods
The Wandering Poet
What would the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival be without a
wandering poet sharing verse with festive festival goers in the woods of
northwestern New Jersey?
Edmund Charles Baranowski, aka TheWanderingPoet has spent the past few years
coupling poems with performance.
At the Dodge festival in 2002, he stood up at an open reading and just
couldn't get the poem out through his locked voice.
Later that day, he commandeered an open mic and said to himself he
would overcome the blockade between his poetry and speaking it. It worked.
Several hours later, he was asked to relinquish the mic because the festival
had been over for an hour.
Baranowski has been touring Renaissance festivals and poetry festivals.
Quite a few poets at the Dodge festival were stopped in their tracks and
treated to a poem by the Wandering Poet.
True to form, The Wandering Poet - who, by the way, has a degree in
literature from Rutgers University - prints his own poetry collections -
each with 13 poems. He says he adopted the number 13 because everyone else
shunned it. He says his mom helps him tie the pages together with yarn.
In addition to treating you to a live spontaneous reading of his
poetry, The Wandering Poet carries in a rucksack bound copies of his verse
for your reading pleasure at your leisure.
Two of his hand-made books include A PEASANT'S PORTFOLIO and A BAKER'S
DOZEN.
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Part Three
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Part Six
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