Just two days after the Red Sox took the World Series crown, and a few days before the election -- what would prove to be the last hours of hope for those on the side of Goodness & Light -- Rusty Morrison sat in the poet's chair to read from new works. I enjoyed the supple music of the poems she read towards the beginning and end of the reading, although a series of new poems seemed a little more raw than the others -- not that there's anything wrong with that, but I liked the crafted feeling of the others better. Rusty just won the Colorado Prize for Poetry for her new book Whethering, and although she didn't read from that work, I look forward to seeing it come out in the next year or so.