Menupoems 2010
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In honor of National Poetry Month, Alimentum presents Menupoems, a baker's dozen of delicious poems served on a two-sided broadside. These handy placemats are made available each April in select restaurants, cafés, and now—online! Please print your own copy of Menupoems 2010.
We also invite you to celebrate with us by taking a menupoem out for a bite at your favorite coffee shop, bistro, park bench or picnic spot. Read a menupoem on video for our YouTube channel and send it to us at AlimentumOnline@gmail.com.
Mark Kurlansky reading "Ode to a Mushroom" Ruth Polleys reading "Perfect Cake" by Shweta Rao Esther Cohen reading "Dear Everyone" at Tout Va Bien, 311 West 51st Street, New York City. James Weikart reading "Entrée Neurosis" by Emily Stokes at Thai Market, 960 Amsterdam Ave, New York City Anne Newman Bacall reading "Just One" by Catherine Harnett at Tout Va Bien, 311 West 51st Street, New York City. Paulette Licitra reading "love dinner" by Lara Candland at City Limits Bakery and Cafe, 361 Clofton Drive, Nashville, Tennessee. Duane Spencer reading "Eating Ants" by Paul S. Piper at City Limits Bakery and Cafe, 361 Clofton Drive, Nashville, Tennessee. Esther Cohen, Alimentum's Menupoems Editor, improvises a menupoem on the spot at Thai Market, 960 Amsterdam Ave, New York City. Peter Odabashian reading "Butterfingers Strikes Again" by Walter Ancarrow at Tout Va Bien, 311 West 51st Street, New York City. Peter Selgin reading "Soufflé" by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis at Sky Blue Café, 700 Fatherland Street, Nashville, Tennessee. Cortney Davis reading "love dinner" at Bailey's Backyard, 23 Bailey Avenue, Ridgefield, Connecticut. Reggie Morin reading "Dear Everyone" by Esther Cohen, at brunch in San Diego, California. Family reading "Butterfingers Strikes Again" by Walter Ancarrow at Easter table. Patti Franklin Nelson reading "Butterfingers Strikes Again" by Walter Ancarrow at Bicyclette Cafe, 14801 Lebanon Pike, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Suzahn Fiering reading "Grapefruit" by Linda Simone at Bicyclette Cafe, 14801 Lebanon Pike, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Lisa Jardine reading her menupoem "Grapefruit" at the restaurant Hiraga Yukihiroo in Tokyo, Japan. Annie Jardine reading "Butterfingers Strikes Again" by Walter Ancarrow at the restaurant Hiraga Yukihiroo in Tokyo, Japan. Annie Jardine reading her own poem "Red Ruby" at the restaurant Hiraga Yukihiroo in Tokyo, Japan. Lara Candland reading her menupoem "love dinner" at Communal in Provo, Utah. Kat Lehman reading "Souffle" by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis at the Dragonfly Cafe and Bakery, 402 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, New Mexico. Linda Simone reading her poem "Grapefruit." Jennifer Justus reading "Entree Neurosis" by Emily Stokes in Margot Cafe and Bar, 1017 Woodland Street, Nashville, Tennessee.