Mattin Center hosts poetry reading
On Monday Nov. 12, the Cybercafe at the Mattin Center hosted the premiere of Open Mic night at JHU. The event is the brainchild of senior Writing Seminars major Joel Aure, who also emceed. The forum is intended to allow poetic, musical, comedic and theatrical voices to shine at Hopkins. Aure kicked off the evening with three poems, "Katherine," "Katherine at the Ruby Lounge" and "Descending at the New Year's Party," touching on past loves and evoking one of the old masters. T.S. Eliot's verse ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") found a postmodern echo in Aure's work when he spoke of preparing "a face to meet the faces that you meet".