Getting Ready for Reading

I'm "featured reader" Thursday night for a poetry month reading, and using the pressure as a catalyst to push through multiple revisions of at least two poems that have languished half-finished for a couple of years, and a BRAND NEW PIECE from a workshop I took last weekend with Maria Mazziotti Gillan (NJ poet). When I told Janice about the concept, she said "That's not nice, Jayne!" and I'm READING IT ANYWAY!