Poets Sunday
3.10.2019
No rain at 4 O'clock, just foggy mist like London almost anytime or Ireland on misty mornings...and it was just one of the very best! These poets, so entirely at home with their performance and words, they were fine wine, aged to perfection just waiting for the right moment. They found it today at Parkside Lounge
R. Nemo Hill, Jee Leong Koh, Adriana Scopino, Meredith Bergmann,Jane Ormerod and the one and only John Marcus Powell. Thanks to Thomas Fucaloro for excellent hosting.
Monday
3.11.2019
Woke very early but within a few hours
needed to sleep more
Felt unstable most of the day
Lightheaded, but got to the post with a package for
an adorable little guy named
"Charlie"
3.10.2019
No rain at 4 O'clock, just foggy mist like London almost anytime or Ireland on misty mornings...and it was just one of the very best! These poets, so entirely at home with their performance and words, they were fine wine, aged to perfection just waiting for the right moment. They found it today at Parkside Lounge
R. Nemo Hill, Jee Leong Koh, Adriana Scopino, Meredith Bergmann,Jane Ormerod and the one and only John Marcus Powell. Thanks to Thomas Fucaloro for excellent hosting.
Biographies copied from the program:
R. Nemo Hill is the editor and publisher of EXOT BOOKS. He is the author of a novel, Pilgrim’s Feather (Quantuck Lane); a book-length poem based on an H.P Lovecraft story, The Strange Music of Erich Zann (Hippocampus Press); a chapbook, Prolegomena To An Essay On Satire (Modern Metrics); and two collections of poems, When Men Bow Down and In No Man’s Ear (Dos Madres Press, 2016). His book of ghazals and photographs, Magellan's Reveries is imminent from Dos Madres Press.
Jane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press), and the chapbook 11 Films (EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream, FLAPPERHOUSE, Maintenant, Marsh Hawk Press Review, Post (BLANK), Sensitive Skin, and Paris Lit Up. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA, an independent press focusing on unpredictable poetry and prose.
Meredith Bergmann is a sculptor and writer. Her public monuments can be seen in Boston and New York. Her publications include Barrow Street, Contemporary Poetry Review, Hopkins Review, Hudson Review, Light, Mezzo Cammin, New Criterion, Raintown Review, Tri Quarterly Review and the anthologies Hot Sonnets and Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle. She was poetry editor of American Arts Quarterly from 2006-2017. Her chapbook A Special Education was published in 2014 by EXOT Books. She will teach a 3 day workshop on ekphrastic poetry at the Poetry by the Sea conference in Madison, CT in May 2019.
Adriana Scopino is a graduate of Drew University's Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Translation. A chapbook of her poetry, Let Me be Like Glass, was published by EXOT BOOKS. In 2017 her translation of My Mother, Resurrected by Argentinian poet Fabián Casas was published by Calypso Editions.
John Marcus Powell is a poet and an actor. He is the author of the chapbook, Loony Lovers, as well as two full-length poetry, Glorious Babe and Veil On, Veil Off, all from EXOT BOOKS. He has been featured on stage in Britain and America, and has also appeared in some fabulously obscure American horror movies. He hails from Wales, but has lived in London, Paris, Rome, Algeria, and for the past twenty-five years in New York City.
R. Nemo Hill is the editor and publisher of EXOT BOOKS. He is the author of a novel, Pilgrim’s Feather (Quantuck Lane); a book-length poem based on an H.P Lovecraft story, The Strange Music of Erich Zann (Hippocampus Press); a chapbook, Prolegomena To An Essay On Satire (Modern Metrics); and two collections of poems, When Men Bow Down and In No Man’s Ear (Dos Madres Press, 2016). His book of ghazals and photographs, Magellan's Reveries is imminent from Dos Madres Press.
Jane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press), and the chapbook 11 Films (EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream, FLAPPERHOUSE, Maintenant, Marsh Hawk Press Review, Post (BLANK), Sensitive Skin, and Paris Lit Up. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA, an independent press focusing on unpredictable poetry and prose.
Meredith Bergmann is a sculptor and writer. Her public monuments can be seen in Boston and New York. Her publications include Barrow Street, Contemporary Poetry Review, Hopkins Review, Hudson Review, Light, Mezzo Cammin, New Criterion, Raintown Review, Tri Quarterly Review and the anthologies Hot Sonnets and Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle. She was poetry editor of American Arts Quarterly from 2006-2017. Her chapbook A Special Education was published in 2014 by EXOT Books. She will teach a 3 day workshop on ekphrastic poetry at the Poetry by the Sea conference in Madison, CT in May 2019.
Adriana Scopino is a graduate of Drew University's Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Translation. A chapbook of her poetry, Let Me be Like Glass, was published by EXOT BOOKS. In 2017 her translation of My Mother, Resurrected by Argentinian poet Fabián Casas was published by Calypso Editions.
John Marcus Powell is a poet and an actor. He is the author of the chapbook, Loony Lovers, as well as two full-length poetry, Glorious Babe and Veil On, Veil Off, all from EXOT BOOKS. He has been featured on stage in Britain and America, and has also appeared in some fabulously obscure American horror movies. He hails from Wales, but has lived in London, Paris, Rome, Algeria, and for the past twenty-five years in New York City.
Monday
3.11.2019
Woke very early but within a few hours
needed to sleep more
Felt unstable most of the day
Lightheaded, but got to the post with a package for
an adorable little guy named
"Charlie"
6 p.m
Perfect Dharma Talk
All about Being Here now
Our Zazen practice of just sitting is not doing nothing
and also it's not doing anything.
No doing
Just being
My raging sinus ache cleared during meditation
Then
Snacks and while cleaning up,
got involved with a sangha friend in struggle
Recognized the struggle.
8 p.m.
Trader Joe
Perfect match of resource at hand, what I wanted,
and purchases made.
So far everything's been simply perfect
then
When I got off the crosstown bus at 1st Avenue
I realized my Liquiteria bag was not with me
OH NO
Lost Focus
No Blame
No Regret
Inside were ten blank art note cards and envelopes with ten photographs
6 of this image
4 of this
plus a page with the verse to be printed and my plan was to assemble and finish as promised to Sensei Chodo, he who had delivered the Dharma talk!
A Living Lesson
DEEPLY IRONIC
So
9-10 p.m.
Telephone work for an Hour
Upshot
Call in the Morning
Okay
If No
I'll find the way to reproduce again
and finish. For now
FINISHED for TODAY
When Will I Be Free
(Thanks to Nancy E.)
Perfect Dharma Talk
All about Being Here now
Our Zazen practice of just sitting is not doing nothing
and also it's not doing anything.
No doing
Just being
My raging sinus ache cleared during meditation
Then
Snacks and while cleaning up,
got involved with a sangha friend in struggle
Recognized the struggle.
8 p.m.
Trader Joe
Perfect match of resource at hand, what I wanted,
and purchases made.
So far everything's been simply perfect
then
When I got off the crosstown bus at 1st Avenue
I realized my Liquiteria bag was not with me
OH NO
Lost Focus
No Blame
No Regret
Inside were ten blank art note cards and envelopes with ten photographs
6 of this image
4 of this
plus a page with the verse to be printed and my plan was to assemble and finish as promised to Sensei Chodo, he who had delivered the Dharma talk!
A Living Lesson
DEEPLY IRONIC
So
9-10 p.m.
Telephone work for an Hour
Upshot
Call in the Morning
Okay
If No
I'll find the way to reproduce again
and finish. For now
FINISHED for TODAY
When Will I Be Free
(Thanks to Nancy E.)
4 comments:
hope your bag of gifts shows up and look forward to listening to the Tedeschi Trucks song once the sun comes up!
Oh rats...isn't it annoying to lose something so integral to your plans? I hope the cards turn up.
Dang...hope it turns up for you. Glad you got to enjoy some poetry though. Love the song of course :)
for some reason three photographs disappeared and are now only reference links which can be seen only by clicking away from the [page. I don't know why.
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