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Meet Virginia’s Poets Special from The Poetry Society of Virginia Joseph Awad was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania and grew up in Washington, DC; he majored in English literature at Georgetown University. His career in public relations brought him to Richmond where he became a vice president of Reynolds Metals Company. He served as national President of the Public Relations Society of America and was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. He has published four books of poetry and has served as Poet Laureate of Virginia. Of an Evening This evening on our street Is quietly expectant. The girl in the lit window across the way Is knitting. Rows of screen doors seem to hum Of summer heat. The trees are still. They stay, As in a painting by Magritte. The mood is Sunday evening Of a Fourth of July weekend, When half the neighborhood is at the shore And sporadic squibs and firecrackers Quicken the expectancy. Tonight There will be no rockets, No showering blooms of blue and orange Shuddering the sky with gasps of light. I stand, hands in pockets, Looking out our front door, Thinking of all the quietly expectant evenings History will ignore. For information about The Poetry Society of Virginia, go to www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org, or write to: Poetry Society of Virginia, c/o Stuart Nottingham, 913 DeWolfe Dr., Alexandria, VA 22308 |
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