BY ANTHONY RIZZO
A chance to experience the original works of local award-winning poets has come.
The inaugural North-45-East poetry reading will be held in downtown Alpena at the Art tomorrow in the Loft.
Joe Bastow, a poet of Alpena, will be hosting the reading.
He said he has a vision that the reading could evolve in in the future.
"We see this going to possibly a writing festival in Northeast Michigan where we have a three-day event or a five-day event with workshops that entail slam writing and performances at the band show and cagefighting with poets and inspiring words. All kinds of things are on the horizon for us and we're just getting started," Bastow said.
Bastow said he's launching the poetry reading to increase awareness and practice of reading and writing through education and performance.