NORTHWOODS ART & BOOK FESTIVAL POETRY DISPLAY/RECOGNITION, AUGUST 20th, 2011 HACKENSACK, MN

Well I have been invited to the Hackensack Arts Festival along with other poets. I am not sure if one or both of my poems will be displayed. I will get to read my first poem, "Failure at Forty". Of course, it's about me like most of my poems. I don't know if I should be honored that someone liked my self loathing description of my under achievement. I guess I am. I wasn't ever planning on sharing that poem. There are some that are too personal, too open to share. I have read my poems before in public. It is a strange naked feeling standing up and opening a vein for strangers to see inside mental meltdown. I guess it makes me a closet exhibitionist.