March 07, 2007
Tommorow Night's Observable Reading: "one of the best ever. No kidding."
Those words - that this will be one of the best Observable Readings ever - come from the curator himself, Mr. Aaron Belz, who's just on the threshold of becoming DOCTOR Belz (doctor of poetry, that is). So listen up, kids! This trio consists of one Bostonian and two professors from Central Missouri State in Warrensburg (where I still have kin. And I have to say, Warrensburg seems like a tough place to be a poet, though I've never spent more than a weekend there).
Rather than list their not-unconsiderable accomplishments, I'll cut and paste some snips from poems that Aaron forwarded my way, which may say more than a list of publication credits ever could ... though if you'd like to see that impressive information it is, as always, at Observable.org. In addition to the poetry, there will be live music by Tony and Patty Marshall.
Jon Woodward:
A steady hail of ink-columns on mind's face-
paper: bilaterally symmetrical & small, double
-taken (from across the room) as
hiding nothing?
Wayne Miller:
What I'll allow myself to beleive is admittedly
not much--the faint mirror of a blank wall,
the heart ringing with another's words
like the sympathetic vibration of a bell--.
John Gallaher:
The children are running across the field, each
carrying something.
Each on his or her spindly legs.
The field's a good field.
THE PERTINENT DETAILS:
March 8, 2007
Observable Readings
Schalfly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest, in lovely Maplewood
8 PM - FREE