Thursday, I retrieved Alicia from her apartment and we made our way to the Baton Rouge Little Theater for the Fourth "Annual" LSMSA Arts Gala. I was quite excited, and had driven into Baton Rouge from New Orleans a day earlier than I had originally planned, specifically to attend. Alicia and I had previously attended the first of these events, in 2007, at the Manship Theatre; it was there that I first heard poetry guru Michael Glaviano read and Alan Talbott sing.
