One: Connecticut BikeWeek .... Torrington, CT - event to be held August 1st though August 8th.
Two: CT Super Sunday™ Expo, held at the CT Expo Center, Hartford.

Peddlar was first awarded CT Bikeweek Poet Laureate status March 2003. In August 2003 Peddlar performed at a poetry show and read a CT Bikeweek poem at the Yankee Peddlar Inn Restarant to a well entertained audiance. Peddlar's Poet Laureate status for CT Bikeweek runs till August 8th.

CT BikeWeek plans on having several shows during the BikeWeek, bringing in poets such as The Highway Poets featuring Peddlar, Colorado T. Sky and club sister Gpysypashn as well as other HPMC Club members. CT Bikeweek also plans to bring in Barnum and Budah's Poetry Circus; Budah is the author of ( Mad Man On The Merrimac ) and Billy Barnum is a direct decendent of the CT P. T. Barnum family.

Peddlar was awarded Poet Laureate status for CT Super Sunday™ this March by Super Sunday™s founder, Don Clady. Peddlar will be at Super Sunday™ Expo May, 9th. He will have his Previously published chap books and copies of his recently produced cd on display. As part of his services as Super Sunday™s Poet Laureate, he will write and compile a column for Poet's Corner to be published in CT Cruise News Magazine. CT Cruise News Magazine is published and edited by Super Sunday™s founder ,Don Clady and will be availabe at the Expo May, 9th. The column will feature and spotlight bikerpoets and give information on poetry readings and open mics that bikerpoets and riders may wish to attend. Peddlar plans on reading at several car and bike cruise nights during the up-comming summer to help promote CT Bike Events and the Poet laureate status. The highway Poets and Peddlar have invited Don Clady and his guests to read at up-comming features and events. One such event is at the Java Hut in Worcester MA, Sunday, July 25th, where Don Clady will read his two 9-11 poems. We at The Highway Poets would like to publicly thank Ed Buley, founder of CT BikeWeek and Don Clady, founder of CT Super Sunday™, for graciously opening their doors for poets to enter at these two major CT Bike Events.

A thumb nail sketch of the history of the title of Poet Laureate can be told as ... The poet through-out history has wrote, chanted and recited , the events of past and present - wars, disasters, etc. Virgil and Homer, to name just two. Before the writen word was King ,it was easier to keep track of words through rhythm .. at times even using a drum. the rhythm would also set the pace and mood of these poems. Tales of great battles would be composed to a fast paced sticato. Sad tales of lonely exoduses would be slow paced and wailed... A call to War would be a rant. The best poets in the use of these devices were chosen to record history and compose of events as they happened, as they were needed. As said ,a call to war .. a dirge to tell of the death of a Queen, all these were needed. These poets chosen for this necessary and inportant task of being the voice of their army, their village, thier tribe are looked back on today as Poet laureates. The title Poet Laureate comes from the late 17th earley 18th century England when the tradtion begain to title their greatest poets, Poet Laureates ... The title Poet Laureate was then given posthumosly to such great historical poets as Homer, Virgil, Chauser and others. Even today many States, Nations and Kingdoms still have their Poet Laureates. The Motorcycle World / Biker Nation has its own legends to tell - its own history to record and its own destiny to write... that is why we have Biker Poet Laureates today.

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