Alandra Markman Storyteller from New Orleans, LA

My offering is called Poetry Upon Request. This is spontaneous original poetry written at a vintage manual typewriter upon the request of you, the patron. My conversations with your guests, and the resulting poems, serve to move and enlighten, often functioning as a mini therapy session as well as artistic expression. The poem is then theirs to treasure for years to come. Thousands of them have been framed, stuck on refrigerators, or otherwise preserved. I keep carbon copies and make books out of them. I have been doing Poetry Upon Request for 11 years and I have written over 12,000 poems this way.