POEMS WHILE YOU WAIT

“Pantone’s Color of the Year” by Kathleen Rooney — Highland Park Librarypalooza, 4.27.13

Poem topic: “Highland Park’s Lake Front”

“This Poem is Full of Emptiness” by Kathleen Rooney — Highland Park Librarypalooza, 4.27.13

Poem topic: “fly”

“Disaster, Certain, Can Be” by Kathleen Rooney — Highland Park Librarypalooza, 4.27.13

Poem topic: “teenage son who received a liver”

“Think/Type” by Eric Plattner — Highland Park Librarypalooza, 4.27.13

Left/Right: Kenyatta/Kathleen

“The Human Mind” by Kathleen Rooney — Highland Park Librarypalooza, 4.27.13

Poem topic: “Highland Park Library, of course!”

“The French Poet Nerval” by Kathleen Rooney — Deerfield Library, 4.6.13

Poem topic: “29th anniversary. Paris, Rome, Michigan”

“Consider” by Kathleen Rooney — Deerfield Public Library, 4.6.13

Poem topic: “secret garden”

“Serendipity” by Kathleen Rooney — Deerfield Public Library, 4.6.13

Poem topic: “serendipity”

“Industrial Color Studies” by Kathleen Rooney — Deerfield Library, 4.6.13

Poem topic: “Pink. Hello Kitty is the queen of everything.”

Poems While You Wait @ the Deerfield Library — 4.6.13

“In the Southern Hemisphere” by Kathleen Rooney — Montessori School Fundraiser, 3.16.13

Poem topic: “May (the month)”

“My Strong Princess Superhero Name” by Kathleen Rooney — Montessori School Fundraiser, 3.16.13

Poem topic: “Strong Princess Superhero”

“A Native American Word for Fire” by Kathleen Rooney — Montessori School Fundraiser, 3.16.13

Poem topic: “Skokie, IL”

“Plenty of Abstract Nouns” by Kathleen Rooney — Dose Market, 2.10.13

Poem topic: “strength and hope and staying the course and it will all be okay”

“A Little Incoherence Never Hurt Anyone” by Kathleen Rooney — Dose Market, 2.10.13

Poem topic: “Angsty sex with someone I can’t have”