Poetry Night

Hi I'm A.J. and I've been reading poetry this place called the blackspot for about 5 months now. I'm not that shy when I comes to reading in front of people, but others might be. As a result, I think that the Blackspot should dedicate one night to the unsung poets, that may have and have not read poetry in public.

Many of my facebook friends have tagged me in his or her poetry notes. I think a lot of them have really great stuff, and I think they deserve to be listened to. It wasn't up until recently did I read one of them that I decided to create this group. Many of you have posted poetry in the past, and many of you know who you are.

I recently made a Facebook group dedicated to this cause, unfortunatey I got some nagative responses. This is one of them

"i don't have enough material! and b-spot is weaksauce. with to many alcoholics to appreciate our epic sonnets! we should see if there's anywhere else we can do this. like 4c's and have it been like a poet get together. sharing pieces, ideas, and shooting the shit of course."

This is another
"I haven't been back there in forever. I wanna go see my friends play, but it kind of got scary. well....the 40-something-year-olds hitting on me bit. If you're old enough to be my parent, please back the fuck off. lol"

This is what I wrote back to both of them
"I respectfully have to agree with you pat....... idk. I think all our friends are right, too many douche bags go there. I was just hoping for a night in which people who haven't read there poetry out loud could finally get a chance in front of people that they are comfortable around, rather than the bucktoothed homeless looking weirdos that yell shit out while people are performing. But I still have hope!"