From A.J. Hladczuk, the University of Buffalo's The Spectrum Online:

Local poet Aaron Lowinger isn't too highbrow to forego a humorous path here or there.

As his work “Résumé” reads, “I can't wait to get home and take a shower in Gold Bond/I bet I could do this high/They say anybody can be a poet if they just got high.”

Perhaps he's right.

Lowinger, along with poet Mike Basinski, took to the podium Thursday in the back of Rust Belt Books, a quaint, hole-in-the-wall used bookstore located on 202 Main Street. Despite the usual, blustery Buffalo weather, poetry fans settled in and warmed up for the reading.

Aaron Lowinger launched the reading with a musical number, for which he donned a pair of dark sunglasses and picked up an acoustic guitar proclaiming, “this is a song for the people who hate.”

Despite his apparent lack of vocal ability, Lowinger got the crowd laughing with witty lyrics.

“When everyone dies and we're the only ones left/you will chew on some bark and I'll beat on my chest.”

The author has been performing his poetry live for most of his life.

“I read for the first time when I was a freshman in college... it's always nerve-wracking, (although) it gets less so as you go on,” Lowinger said.

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Source: The Spectrum Online

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