[bctt tweet=”Read an assortment of booze-themed poems (Gin and Tonic, Stout, Rolling Rock Beer) by Ellen McGrath Smith”]“One time, at a party years after I’d stopped drinking, I told someone, ‘The closest I get to a buzz now is when I’m practicing yoga.’ I’m sure this has something to do with endorphins, but it also planted the seeds for a poetry project exploring yoga and alcohol. The poems inhabit a range of forms from sestina to sonnet to ghazal to prose-poem hybrids, mirroring the many shapes the body assumes in a yoga asana practice. Bottoms up and namaste…”
"If you love something, let it go" can apply to lots of things, including booze, as you'll see in Ellen McGrath Smith's…
Posted by Acquired Taste Reading Series on Friday, November 13, 2015