Rich Levy, the executive director of local literary arts organization Inprint, explores his various real-life roles as husband, father, executive and artist in his debut poetry collection, Why Me? Poems. We see his arts executive side, ever worried about building audiences, in “Shrew Al Fresco,” in which he contrasts seeing Shakespeare’s famous play in a lush theater setting with the outdoor festivals which most Americans get their Bard fix from: “in parks, on blankets and hard chairs / gnawing on chicken bones and watermelon rinds / kids chasing each other, grannies asleep. There’s no way they’re getting half of this” Alas, poor Yorick – can you pass the potato salad? 4 p.m. Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet. For information, call 713-523-0701 or visit www.brazosbookstore.com. Free.
Sun., Oct. 4, 4 p.m., 2009
This article appears in Oct 1-7, 2009.
