A Manicure Leads to a Literary Friendship
Tony Platt and Jael Freedman. Tony Platt hide caption
Tony Platt and Jael Freedman.
Tony PlattWriter Tony Platt stopped in Baltimore for a manicure and found a poet. Jael Freedman works at a spa and creates her poems in her head, then recites them. In fact, that's what she did for Platt -- once he asked -- all the while continuing to buff his nails.
"I did not graduate high school or go to college," she says. "But I feel that in life everything is learning and just because you don't take the traditional learning, that doesn't mean you're any less smart than someone who has a doctorate."
Freedman Reads Her Work
'He laid on the cold concrete...'
'We buried love in the darkness...'
Together, Platt and Freedman tell the story of a chance encounter that turned into a literary meeting of the minds.