Jul 16, 2026 · 26 min · 12 segments
Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! This month, Mary Sexson and I recount the latest Brick Street Poetry meeting at the Literary Arts Park in downtown Indy, in celebration of the 250th…
Mary SexsonGuestCatherineHostSo, I mean, it's pretty informal today.
Not like the last few times we've had you on.
Um, I think we're just going to talk generally about the event.
And if you want to talk about like, you know, what the anniversary meant to you, if it meant anything to you
um, the poems and just sort of the context for people who weren't there was sort of the idea.
Yeah.
It was with Curtis Chrysler, who is our poet laureate, and also Jay Okada, who is an old dear friend.
And the idea was that it was kind of like a round robin where whoever got up first kind of set the pace as far as the theme.
And then you could read However, many and then someone else could go up and they would have to follow in suit with what you read as far as the theme.
So that was really fun because it kind of I brought a lot of poems with me that day because I wasn't sure what I wanted to read and I had them categorized like family, nature, growing up.
I had all kinds of categories and I tried to like kind of vary it and mix it up a little bit as far as what I was reading.
And then JL came on after me and then Curtis and then later We started again, but somebody else led it.
And then we had to follow them, which made it super interesting, especially to listen to what they chose.
You
They were, you know, there wasn't a ton of people there, but there were plenty and they liked what they were listening to.
And that made the three poets who were reading very happy because we had a responsive audience that was like, yeah, I like this.
So, I mean, it's pretty informal today.
Not like the last few times we've had you on.
Um, I think we're just going to talk generally about the event.
And if you want to talk about like, you know, what the anniversary meant to you, if it meant anything to you
um, the poems and just sort of the context for people who weren't there was sort of the idea.
Yeah.
It was with Curtis Chrysler, who is our poet laureate, and also Jay Okada, who is an old dear friend.
And the idea was that it was kind of like a round robin where whoever got up first kind of set the pace as far as the theme.
And then you could read However, many and then someone else could go up and they would have to follow in suit with what you read as far as the theme.
So that was really fun because it kind of I brought a lot of poems with me that day because I wasn't sure what I wanted to read and I had them categorized like family, nature, growing up.
I had all kinds of categories and I tried to like kind of vary it and mix it up a little bit as far as what I was reading.
And then JL came on after me and then Curtis and then later We started again, but somebody else led it.
And then we had to follow them, which made it super interesting, especially to listen to what they chose.
You
They were, you know, there wasn't a ton of people there, but there were plenty and they liked what they were listening to.
And that made the three poets who were reading very happy because we had a responsive audience that was like, yeah, I like this.
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