Sunday, August 30, 2009

"Passaic center loomed like a dull adjective. Each 'store' in it was an adjective unto the next, a chain of adjectives disguised as stores."

--Robert Smithson, "Monuments of Passaic, NJ"

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

"If this is outer space, any closet will do."

--Bochner and Smithson, "In the Domain of the Great Bear" (1966)

Monday, August 17, 2009

Peaches and Bats launch reading, 8/27


Reading Frenzy and "The Firm and Aerie"
invite you to a publication party for
Peaches and Bats 4

with readings by
Sam Lohmann
Jesse Morse
Phoebe Wayne


Thursday, August 27
at 7 pm
Reading Frenzy
921 SW Oak Street, Portland
free

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Baus and Foust, 8/16/09


Sunday, August 16
at 7:30 pm
Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Eric Baus
&
Graham Foust

Concordia Coffee House
2909 NE Alberta St.
$5 suggested donation

Monday, August 3, 2009

On Hold

by Elaine Equi



Sucking on the pacifier of my iced tall latte.           

                                   

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White butterflies: flying lint.

 

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My tattoo reads: Whatever you think I’m doing, I’m not doing it.

 

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Sticky self lugged around.

Poison monopoly mouse and trap.

 

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Okay, let’s meet at Duane Reade, but this time use my name.

 

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After years and years, it’s finally dawned on us.

Art is not an object, but a way of looking at an object.

 

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That’s a real Chucky painting.

 

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Only 39, 38, 37 more steps to the Holy Grail of Ice Cream.

 

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dog days

kerosene breeze

 

cartoonish faces

heckled by light

 

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My hair doesn’t do stringy. Frizzy, yes; stringy, no.

 

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tamales! tamales!

orchids! orchids!

 

torchids      ormales

 

*

 

Are you feeling super imposed on?

 

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Three heads are better than two.

 

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Autumn Mutability

Drip-dry Rain

Net of Dust

 

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We’ve had this lack of conversation before.

 

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Please be patient. Prayers are being answered in the order in which

they were received.



(from Peaches and Bats 3)

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Cole and Hill, 8/6/09

Thursday, August 6, at 7:30 pm
Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Norma Cole
&
Lindsay Hill

Concordia Coffee House
2909 NE Alberta Street
$5 suggested donation