Paper Gardens Judge Charles Goodrich reads

Paper Gardens 2012 Literary Contest for Adult, Youth and Children writers is sponsored by Arts Alliance of Yamhill County.  The 19th Paper Gardens celebration was held on April 13th at the McMinnville Community Center.  Contest Chair-person was Kelli Grinich and Judge was Charles Goodrich.

We filmed the event and finally edited it into a 45 minute for TV show.  We delivered Meadowlake Studios Encounter: Paper Gardens 2012 to McMinnville Community Media yesterday.  MCM starts a new weekly schedule on Saturdays.  Our Meadowlake Encounter with Paper Gardens will likely begin on Comcast Channel 11 and Frontier 29 on Saturday the 12th.  It is all there.  Kelli Grinich's introduction, Charles Goodrich's encouragement, his reading of some of his poems and the Adult, Youth and Children categories in Free Verse, Traditional Poetry, Haiku, Poetry of Place and Prose who chose to read their work.

As the evening was wrapping up Charles handed me a copy of his newest book of poems Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden.  The poems follow the seasons from Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring and to Summer again.  His voice has an elegant calm, his eye able to see the finest detail of ordinary and not so ordinary things and his humor and humanity are reflected without trying.

Once the TV show is edited it is not much more to edit segments to fit YouTube's limit of 15 minutes or less. 

I liked the "Bubble Bee" poem.  The day before yesterday I watch a bubble bee struggling to work on a tiny blue rosemary flower.  Charles poem is perfect.