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I've got two more prose-poem-type-things from the manuscript, How the World was Made, appearing in the great online journal,
I've got two more prose-poem-type-things from the manuscript, How the World was Made, appearing in the great online journal,
Sarah Katharina Kayß/from Summer 2016 2River |
Run by Richard Long,
a professor of English at St. Louis Community College--Meramec, 2River has been an online
quarterly site of poetry, art and photography, since 1996. 21 years!
Since then, the journal has expanded into a site with the 2River Chapbook Series,
and a blog, Muddy Bank.
James Deeb/from Spring 2016 2River |
2River also published a chapbook of mine back in 2009 (the prototype for this new manuscript). It is also called
Alexandra Eldridge/from Fall 2012 2River |
In addition,
Richard takes photographs and makes movies from his
bicycle while traveling in the summer self-supported around the United States.
He puts many of those photographs and movies on his wilderness blog, richardtreks.blogspot.com.
Photo by Richard Long |
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Here's the beginning of one of the poems. It has the title of my last book. Go figure.
All the Beautiful Dead
(along the side of the road)
All the Beautiful Dead
(along the side of the road)
Being so close to the surface of the road, I began to notice all the dead animals along the shoulder. It was shocking how many there were. You never notice the bodies when you blow down the road at fifty or sixty miles an hour. Sometimes I would stop, crouch next to them – hummingbirds, possums, cats, turtles. I still don’t know why – to let them know that someone saw them, acknowledged that they were part of the world, that they would be missed?
Katrina Pallop/from Fall 2011 2River |
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Meanwhile,
I'm giving a reading from
All the Beautiful Dead
at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore
in Boulder, Colorado,
this Thursday at 7pm.
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore |
If you know anyone in the Boulder area,
let them know.
Bopa-lalla.