The First Reading of Midnight Fields
April 2026

A new literary form made its public debut this weekend. Midnight Fields is a poetic screenplay — every episode composed entirely in micropoetry, compact stanzas, each carrying the weight of a scene.

Season One has now been read aloud — in full — twice.

The first reading was April 18, 2026, at Bibliotech Book Store in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of an evening of spoken word, poetry, and book signing. The second was April 19, 2026, at the Athens-Clarke County Regional Library, during a Community Poetry Open Mic hosted by Amanda Dzimianski, the newly appointed Athens Poet Laureate.

All ten episodes were read from start to finish, both times.

This is its public record. Two rooms heard it before anyone else did — Atlanta and Athens, on consecutive days, in National Poetry Month.

Where it goes from here is still being written. Seasons 2 and 3 already done. /midnight-fields-poetic-screenplays-from-the-midnight-hours