Saturday, June 28, 2014

Maya Said There’d Be Days Like This



Maya Said There’d Be Days Like This
(Elliot Rodgers and the Manosphere)

Maya said,
I've got diamonds
at the meeting of my thighs.

That doesn’t give you
mining rights.

Annihilate me

for rejecting you? You whom i don’t
know. But you don’t know
                      
me.           

You WANT to see broken
bowed heads and lowered eyes
and hear soulful cries. You got it
didn’t you?       But now you are gone.
     
Nothing to see here

is the response from the extreme men’s rights and their
longing to watch all the women of the world
starve to death in concentration camps,  claim they aren't

misogynist.

I wonder what the Nigerian girls 
  
            kidnapped 

by Boko Haram are thinking
they probably don’t even know
about this

                                                  
              tragedy.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

There are No Phones in Urns

It must have given you pleasure
to say Goodbye, after I told
you that I love you. It happened

so often.

Maybe, I thought, you never
heard me say it. But the stumble
of your tongue and your use of the word
"well" before "goodbye" makes me

sure you did.

Ringing - I still
am anxious over. Yet I still
         answer.

Sunday, March 9, 2014

snippets from the stages of grieving




Anger: The Third Stage of Grief



Anger: The Third Stage of Grief


I sit alone. Finally

                                        a break in

my crazy, busy life.
The gift you gave me

by dying.                           Abruptly,

ending my attempts to
visit you before
                                          you die.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Luke Koozmesh Feature- do NOT miss this incredible poet. you will be sorry if you do.

Straight from Poets' Hall - Good Weekend Good People. Full house Friday, informative meeting this afternoon and enough in the fishbowl to get us through Feb. Luke Kuzmish this coming Friday (and Wednesday on Fazed Cookies 90.5 WERG 9PM) come prepared to add another volume to your poetry libraries. We'll see you there.
 SAVE POETS' HALL!
 
 

Monday, December 30, 2013

Start The New Year Right



Erie, Pennsylvania - starts the year off with yours truly on January 3 @ 8:30 pm with an open mic and then my feature. If you’ve never been to Poets’ Hall then you are in for a treat. There is nothing like it in anywhere else. The best and possibly only venue dedicated to the art of poetry & spoken word anywhere in the universe on a weekly basis. Cee Williams has created a venue especially for artists who value an art-form that expresses emotion in a way that no other form can. Poetry, when read or heard, lets the reader or listener feel. You may be thinking that you’ve read books that make you sense a certain something – sad or happy, sick or well, motivated or numb, lustful or shameful and on and on. Well then, that’s poetry my friends. Poetry lets you be it, not just dream it. Oh there's room for music here as well.


photo by MM Photos
Lakewood, Ohio – begins the year January 6 @ 7:30 pm with Dianne Borsenik & George Wallace. Dianne is a favorite. I’ve never known anyone who could use hors d'oeuvres to create an exquisite poem – but she sure as hell can and does. Dianne is extremely gifted. She will make you laugh, cry and . . . well just in awe of her talent.

It’s been a few years since I’ve heard George Wallace read in person and I cannot wait to hear him again. He is an internationally acclaimed poet whose wordplay is fun and intense. Some have said he is a poetry rock star. I tend to agree.

Wallace is also a feature at Mac’sBacks-Books On Coventry in Cleveland for NightBalletPress’s start to the New Year with Ed Luhrs and Russ Green, Saturday January 4, 2014 at 7pm.

restarts on January 15 @ 6 pm at a new venue. 1011 W 38th St, Erie, Pennsylvania 16509

Written by Ray Cooney
Directed by Mark Sebastian Jordan
Opens Friday, January 10, and runs the 10th, 11th, 17th and 18th at 8 pm, & 2:30 pm matinee on Sunday, January 19. For tickets visit here or call the box office at 419-522-2883 between 1 & 6 pm Wednesdays-Fridays.