Fellow poets offered verses of “dooryard” visits, sloths, nude models in college pondering laundry, among others, to honor Jennifer Lynn White, the city’s first poet laureate Saturday evening.

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White, who lives in East Rochester, said she wants to provide more outlets for local poets to express themselves during her two-year tenure. She added she’s hosting reading sessions at the Busy Bean, a cafe on North Main Street, and will be teaching two six-week poetry classes at Artstream.

“I think reading poetry is perhaps the biggest thing of writing poetry,” White said.

White began the evening with a poem by E.E. Cummings, followed by “Scars,” one of her own creations. She added a lot of her poems are about scars and other rites of passages.

Andrew Periale, of Perry Alley Theater, followed White’s readings with a cooking skit performed entirely in Italian.

Poets Leslie Snow, John-Michael Albert, Pat Frisella and Neil English then joined Periale in a revolving series of poetry, each selecting another poem which somewhat pertained to previous verses.
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