Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Bill Berkson, 2/21/10



Sunday, February 21
at 7:30 pm
Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Bill Berkson

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


Saturday, February 6, 2010

"I was solicited to write the affairs of my own time, by some . . . but they do not consider that to purchase the glory of Sallust, I would not give myself the trouble, sworn enemy as I am to obligation, assiduity, or perseverance; that there is nothing so contrary to my style as a continued narrative, I so often cut myself short in my writing for want of breath; I have neither composition nor explanation worth anything, and am ignorant, beyond a child, of the phrases and even the proper words to express the most common things; and for that reason it is, that I have undertaken to say only what I can say, and have accommodated my subject to my strength: should I take one to be my guide, peradventure I should not be able to keep pace with him; and in the freedom of my liberty, might deliver judgements, which upon better thoughts, and according to reason, would be illegitimate and punishable."
--Montaigne, "Of the Force of Imagination" 
(trans. Cotton)

"Sentences are shortness of breath.
. . .
Sentences protect us from the storms at their margins.
. . .
If I could tell you about this sea
I wouldn't show it.
. . .
I write through my story, I have it in for myself.
. . .
To be, to be continued (double-negative, tentative title)."
--Clark Coolidge, "Partial Nurtures" 

Monday, February 1, 2010

Cobb and Morse, 2/7/10

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

Allison Cobb
&
Jesse Morse

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