North Pole Diet

Timmy Reed, hands down, delivered one of the best performances at the North Pole Diet Poetry Reading, because he seemed to have tapped into a remarkable, inventive technique of opening the poem up beyond what is simply written on the page. Rediscovering his visionary "Rainbow Water Salad", inserting new colors and trains of thought, he achieved some true moments of hilarity and made the whole thing very conversational, repetitious, but never dull. I was inspired by what he accomplished onstage with his friend Carabella Sands standing at his side like his absurd muse.