Month: August 2008
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POP is back!
Poets off Poetry is up and running at its new home http://coldfrontmag.com/. A very exciting thing indeed. Please read and enjoy and thank you very much. This transition has been a long time coming. Special thanks to Graeme and John at coldfront for their patience and interest in this project. Yay!
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A Large or Splendid Residence
Racing away from painted lines, the simple equal of beads balance against each other. Each can see the lumber lines. Someone is still waiting around for quarters and dimes to be chucked out of windows. I align the grove debris and think of other things: Orthodox gyros, active adult homes atop retainer walls, stacked blue…
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The Poetry Brothel, afoot and affected
Poetry Brothel Friday, August 22 9pm-2am Papa B Studios 907 Broadway @ Arion Place You never know, you could bump into a hottie with a onesy on. It could totally happen.
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Facet by Dean Young
For weeks, I’ve gone unbroken but not unpunished by the quiet of zero degrees which is worse than the quiet of twenty when at least you can’t hear the stars wheeze. I can’t make it any clearer than that and stay drunk. A crash course in the afterlife where I still walk beside you but…
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From Robertson, from Ruskin, found in the Office of Soft Architecture
“The intelligent part of man being eminently if not chiefly displayed in the structure of his work, his affectionate part is to be displayed in its decoration.” -John Ruskin I’m reading this really neat book right now called Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office of Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson published by Clear…
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Everybody’s Science
Streetlights sit outside cornered walls. We spend a few hours inside. We meet after days and days. The casio sounds a little too loud. I drink water, you the well. My feeling is more the being here, this way when you answer for me you answer wrong. United fronts are more true and the bars…
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While You Sleep She Makes Your Jewelry
Check out some really awesome jewelry made by a really awesome poet. Mactaggart at Etsy.com Even the item descriptions are poetic. Here’s one of my favorites from the “Tortoise in the Bay” necklace: “It might encourage sleep with a lemon between lips.” Intriguing… Etsy is a really neat site of DIY crafty crafts. I always…
No Help for That | Jackie Clark 