Hey,
Austin. I'm hooooooome!
And
what a week! Saw the movie "Slam" just a few miles from
filming location (LOVED IT!), jaunted up to Massachusetts and read at
the hippest l'il java joint in Northampton, "Fire and Water",
with host Efrain Martinez taking it over the edge. If you're ever in
the area, check it out on Wednesday nights. And would you believe, a
sro read in my hometown (Thomas Wolfe was wrong, folks, you CAN go
home again!) at Riverdale (Maryland) Bookshop and Coffee Depot?
Within a stone's throw of the B & O railroad - and if you've
never competed with a Friday night freight train rattling the walls,
well! Capp machines are a piece of cake! Twas great hearing Toby
DeBarr and Nicki Miller, who run the Frederick Poetry Salon, as well
as all the other fine poets who turned out.
Now,
the really sorry news. My computer crashed after I got home, (go
ahead, Argentina, cry for me), but thanks to my photographic memory,
or was it my devoted husband, I recovered the mailing list. If you
don't find your event or announcement posted this week, please resend
it for next week's newsletter. If you find the newsletter in your
mailbox today, when you've already asked off, most graciously, I
might add, just e me and I'll correct the error.
And
now, join me in singing happy birthday to the newsletter, one year
old this week:
Happy
birthday to you
Happy
birthday to you
Happy
birthday, issue 52
Happy
birthday to you!
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
I.
Austin Poets Guide
II.
Featured poetry
III.
Books/Chapbooks/Spoken Word CD's
IV.
Calls for Submissons
V.
Announcements
I.
Austin Poets Guide
Events
are free unless otherwise noted. Some venues pass the tip jar for
featured poets. Pay the poets!
1.
Tuesday, Nov. 3 - Ruta Maya Coffee House, 4th & Lavaca. Apal open
mic, sign up at 6:30 p.m. Sara Sutterfield Winn and Mark Maslow
cohost. Reading poets are invited to display and sell your chapbooks.
fmi e maslow_at_flash.net.
2.
Tuesday, Nov. 3 - Electric Lounge, 302 Bowie, it's the weekly Austin
Slam! Win $50 and qualify for the City Slam Off. Ernie Cline hosts.
Sign up by 8:30 p.m. Coupla bucks admission. fmi call 476-FUSE.
3.
Wednesday, Nov. 4 - Movements Gallery, 211 E. 6th St. BYOB: Blast
Your Own Breath, 9 p.m. Tammy Gomez hosts. fmi contact
tejana.tongue_at_mail.utexas.edu
4.
Friday, Nov. 6 - Mojo's Daily Grind, 2714 Guadalupe. Marie
Fleischmann hosts "First Friday" open mic. Sign up at 8
p.m.
5.
Saturday, Nov. 7 - "POETRY IN THE ARTS": at the Austin
History Center, Guadalupe and 9th at 2 PM. Featured speakers are
Vicki Goldsberry, Austin poet, and John N. Igo, Jr., San Antonio
writer, poet, educator. On display: paintings by Carmen Ayala S.
Sherbert, New York artist. Kaye Abikhaled will emcee. The public is
invited, free admission, refreshments follow presentations.
6.
Saturday, Nov. 7 - Saturday Night Live Poetry at Quackenbush's, 2120
Guadalupe. Apal open mic, sign up at 7:30. This week's feature:
Kathryn Sibley Turner, of Central Texas Live Poets Society. She has
had over 427 poems published by over 48 different poetry journals.
Recently she presented a workshop at the Temple Public Library called
“How to Get Published Without Killing Yourself or the Editors".
Kathryn is promoting the Poetfest III in Temple, Sunday, Nov. 15. fmi
contact buddydog_at_texas.net
7.
Monday, Nov. 9 - Patio of Jovita's Restaurant, 1619 South First St.
from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Red Salmon Arts, focusing on the literary
heritage of historically marginalized peoples, provides a space for
emerging writers/artist as well as published writers from inside and
outside of Austin; hosting on-going poetry series, "Southside
Poetic Action Series" open mike reading. Fmi contact Resistencia
Bookstore, 416-8885
8.
Tuesday, Nov. 10 - Ruta Maya Coffee House, 4th and Lavaca. Apal open
mike, sign up at 6:30 p.m. Co-hosted by Sara Sutterfield Winn and
Mark Maslow. Reading poets are invited to display and sell your
chapbooks/spoken word works. fmi contact maslow_at_flash.net
9.
Tuesday, Nov. 10 - Electric Lounge, 302 Bowie. $3 admission to the
weekly Austin slam. Sign up by 8:30 p.m. Compete for $50. If you are
Jeff Knight or Karyna McGlynn, you will probably win this week, or
next week, or the next. Or be a judge. It's all in the game. Sonya
Feher hosts. fmi call 476-FUSE
10.
Wednesday, Nov. 11 - Movements Gallery, 211 E. 6th St. BYOB: Blast
Your Own Breath, 9 p.m. Tammy Gomez hosts. fmi contact
tejana.tongue_at_mail.utexas.edu
11.
Thursday, Nov. 12 - Barnes and Noble Guadalupe, on the Drag. 7:30
p.m. Austin International Poetry Festival Anthology: "Di-Verse-City
Too." Listen to some of Austin's finest poets recite their
works. Also, Australian poet Marge Cronin, who is literary editor of
"Refractory Girl", a feminist journal, and review editor
of the new Australian poetry tabloid, "Cordite". [note:
this is a change of date for Marge Cronin from Nov. 5 to Nov. 12] See
you there. fmi call 457-0581.
12.
Thursday, Nov. 12 - Barnes & Noble in the Arboretum. 7:30 p.m.
Featured poet: Barbara Carr, followed by round robin open read.
Herman Nelson hosts. fmi call 837-8693 or 928-0619.
13.
Saturday, Nov. 14 - Saturday Night Live Poetry at Quackenbush's
Coffee House, 2120 Guadalupe.
Apal
open mic sign up at 7:30 p.m. Featured poet: Australian poet and
editor Marge Cronin.
(see
item # 11 above.) fmi contact buddydog_at_texas.net.
14.
Sunday, Nov. 15 - Central Texas Live Poets Society's Poetfest 3,
y'all. 11 am til 7 pm at the Cultural Activities Center, in the heart
of Temple, Texas. Events at the festival will include: open mike
poetry readings, book tables to sell your chapbooks, a POETFEST 3
Anthology, live singers & musicians and a poetry "slam"
(competition performance poetry). Featured guests: Betty Elders, who
opened for Joan Baez in Europe; Steve Brooks, a writer's songwriter;
special reading and book signing by Australian poet Marge Cronin. An
awards ceremony will be held before the slams to honor the finest of
the fest. Tickets are $5.00 to all, except students who only need to
show their student ID to get in free. Tickets will be available in
Temple at the CAC, Barrys Coffee House, One World Coffee House, Zoes
Coffee House and in Salado at Fletchers Books and Antiques. fmi
contact mgreene_at_sage.net
II.
Featured Poetry - This week's theme: Well, it was going to be
Sonnets - The Sequel, but the computer gods zapped the sonnets into
the ether. I've decided to give the stage to a 12-year-old poet
goddess-in-training, a second generation slammer from Pittsburgh.
Some of you on the Slam Family list serve will have read the piece,
posted by Christina Springer. She's rightfully proud of her progeny,
Imani. I asked Imani if she thought her mom is as cool as I think she
is. Imani answered yes, and cooler.
Thanks
to all who have offered your work for publication in the newsletter.
Sonneteers please resubmit.
Theme
for #53: Abuse, spousal and otherwise: bringing it to light.
Theme
for #54: Love poems that leave me smiling (because last week's theme
doesn't)
Here
is Imani's poem:
Mini
Me
Sweetheart,
wouldn't you feel more comfortable
with
some pants? The teacher's voice is fakey kind
and
gentle. In other words, she's saying,
"You
must be bland as yogurt,
boring
as a white wall in a world of magic,
and
hide difference as if being free
were
dangerous as pesticide."
And
I get the feeling that she wants me to give up
being
me. Like I'm going to act like all the other students?
Yeah,
that and stop breathing. But instead, I say,
"I'll
call my mother and ask her to bring some clothing."
As
I walk to the phone I think of the way
my
green velveteen mini-dress screams,
"Look
at me everyone!
I'm
a statue of Aphrodite!
I'm
Boudiccea leading the charge!"
I'm
Athena bursting from my father's head!"
Guilt.
Guilt is gnawing away at my self-esteem and pulling
me
out of this fantasy. I see people laughing, snickering
and
whispering to each other as I pass. I notice
even
though everyone is out of uniform
they
all look just same. Except me. Freaking
repressed
Catholics oppressing me into making the call.
I
duck as a Saint swoops down out of heaven
to
cut away all of the fun parts of me with his celestial cookie cutter.
They
might be able make me call home, but, I still know.
I've
got a mini-dress under the Black pants.
Imani
Springer, 1998 (age 12)
III.
Chapbooks/Books/Spoken Word CD's
chap*book
(noun) First appeared 1798 : a small book containing ballads, poems,
tales, or tracts. it was so called because it was hawked by 'chapmen'
- or peddlers. The word 'chap' comes from a ME and/or OE word
meaning 'cheap.'
1.
THE OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN POETRY
edited
by Alan Kaufman
(From:
Thunder's Mouth Press, trade ppbk., $16.95)
CONTACT:
Publishers Group West 1-800-788-3123
Thunders
Mouth Press 212-614-7880
The
Outlaw Bible of American Poetry edited by Alan Kaufman will be
published as a trade paperback by Thunder's Mouth Press in April,
1999 and rumor has it that it's going to be the smash event of
National Poetry Month, with huge 'outlaw gatherings' in the works for
New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and across the country. The
'Bible' contains some of the greatest 'Outlaw' names in American
lit., and presents a new vision for American poetry from the post-war
era to the present day, including Jack Hirschman, Allen Ginsberg,
SISTER SPIT, Diane DiPrima, David Lerner, Jack Kerouac, d.a.levy,
Gregory Corso, Sapphire, Eileen Myles, Jack Micheline, Sarah Menafee,
Bob Kaufman, Penny Arcade, Jim Morrison, Luis Rodriguez, Anne
Waldman, Ken Kesey, Kathy Acker, Pedro Pietri, David Trinidad, Ellyn
Maybe, John Farris, Steve Dalachinsky, The Unbearables, Justin Chin,
Daniel Higgs, The Babarians, Ken Dimaggio, Father Daniel Berrigan,
Lenny Bruce, The Carma Bums, Richard Brautigan, Kenneth Patchen,
Abbie Hoffman, Andy Clausen, Janine Pomy Vega, Anne Waldman and over
a hundred others, plus essays, letters, rants and never-before-seen
photos of the Outlaw poetry scene.
2.
"Everything Holy" by Australian poet MTC Cronin. 86 pp.,
$12.00, available at her reading/signing at Barnes & Noble
Guadalupe, Nov. 12, at PoetFest 3 on Nov. 15, or contact Mark
Klemons at balcones_at_vvm.com. Poet Philip Salom said of "Everything
Holy": "Lively, seductive, inventive--these taut and naked
lines can bear no decoration--their imagery is startling and
wonderfully surrealistic. She is a cryptic and very playful poet and
yet a serious one; her inventions and her closer honesties are never
self-indulgent but put to the service of the poem."
3.
"Human Being" by Jack Myers. Rancho Loco Press Texas Poet's
Chapbook Series. This latest book deals directly, deftly, and
ironically with Jack's ongoing spiritual evolution; Jack digs deeply
into the Jewish, Buddhist, and Sufi traditions while retaining a
voice that is uniquely his own. This volume is a signed, numbered
first edition printed on bamboo-laid paper with original cover art by
Nguyen Thi Hop. $8, postpaid. e mail Joe Ahern at
rancho-loco-press_at_airmail.net or mail check to:
Rancho
Loco Press
1920
Abrams Parkway
Box
382
Dallas,
Texas 75214
4.
Selections from the Austin International Poetry festival's 1998
anthology, "Di-Verse-City Too", are now online! The url is
http://www.hyperweb.com/aipf.
The
anthology page will be updated each week with different selections by
the 88 local, state, national and international poets whose works
appear in the anthology. "Di-Verse-City Too" is available
at BookPeople, Barnes & Noble Guadalupe, or by contacting Scott
Wiggerman at wigg119_at_flash.net.
5.
"Quiet Moments" by Forestine C. Bynum. $10. 37 poems, 50
pages; Inspirational; Women; Love-Admiration; Humor; Family; Nature;
Life Feelings. PS Printing, Temple Hills, Md. Order by contacting:
Forestine
Bynum
2709
Overdale Place
Forestville,
Md. 20747
IV.
Calls for submissions.
1.
The Austin International Poetry Festival announces its third annual
Austin Younger Poets Awards to be presented at the Austin
International Poetry Festival, April 15-18, 1999. This contest is
open to poets under the age of 25, especially for middle school, high
school, and college poets.Cash prizes will be awarded, and selected
poems will be printed in the Austin Younger Poets Award Anthology.
For details write Frank Pool at aipf99_at_aol.com or to
P.O.
Box 204403, Austin, Texas, 78720.
V.
Announcements.
1.
From Bowerbird Intelligentleman:
nap
jam III, now registering. contact bowerbird_at_aol.com
visit
the website at http://users.aol.com/bowerbird
it's
december 14-17th, in las vegas, again at the plaza hotel downtown.
i'm setting the pre-registration deadline for 11/11/98. at this time,
it's $100 for registration-plus-room-for-4-nights -- all due in
advance this time to make my job less difficult. after 11/11/98,
it'll cost more, so register now and save!
2.
Wanted - Homes for Yorkshire Poets for festival time.
Ian
- Easy going techno freak, smoker and still alive at thirty. Handsom,
witty, charming, collects science fiction. He is a musician, dreamer
and all round decent sort of guy.
Bruce
- 51 years old, outrageously sensible, cooks and can clean if asked.
He has warm brown eyes and never leaves rings around the bath.
If
anyone can give these lovely fellas a home from 9th-19th April, they
will be blessed with good fortune and good company and it is a woman
writing this so it must be true. Thank you in anticipation. Alex
Krysinski e mail 106251.103_at_compuserve.com
3.
Reminder - send your nomination to the Favorite Poem Project. .
http://www.nefa.org/connect/poem_project.htm
4.
From Margery Snyder:
"As
you probably already know, I'm working with Bob Holman as a guide to
poets & poetry on the Net for the Mining Co. I've been reading
your lively & entertaining Austin Poets At Large newsletter for a
while now, & I thought you'd like to know that I've finally
gotten around to adding links to our permanent libraries: The APAL
archives + a mailto link for subscribing are in Local & Regional
Organizations & Calendars
(http://poetry.miningco.com/msubloc.htm) and your personal site +
another link to APAL are in Living Poets indexed under your name
(http://poetry.miningco.com/msubfolk.htm)"
5.
From Christine Gilbert:
Texas
Nafas is now being aired on ACTV channel 16, Saturdays, 10 p.m.
November's show is "Our English Connection: Part I" and
features some of the English poets who visited Austin last year for
the AIPF. Jamuna the Bard and Rupert Hopkins stayed with Christine,
so naturally she got some good footage of them reading and discussing
poetry outdoors at Zilker Park. More conversation about poetry too
place at a gathering at her home, with Thom the World Poet, Howard
Frost, Jamuna, Rupert, and others sharing their ideas about
poetry.Readings at Waterloo Ice House and Barry's Coffee House in
Temple are included in the show.
6.
From Alan Kaufman,
Dear
Poet,
Please
read and send to a fellow poet.
A
Spoken Word Manifesto
by
Alan Kaufman
The
Spoken Word poets assembling at cafe open mikes and slams across the
land belong to no esthetic camp. We are untrained in academics. I
don't think that a one of us knows the difference between a Glose and
a Kyrelle. All of us have come to Spoken Word poetry with the usual
hodge-podge of training, picked up in University classes or mostly on
one's own, out of books, through emulation more than understanding.
Some of us got our training in how to write at third-rate newspapers,
putting together business reports, or editing wacko newsletters for
UFO sighting organizations or just curled up naked on a mattress
covered with a sleeping bag, writing crazily in a notebook without a
single hope that anyone would read it. Some of us had published but
that didn't help to create the kind of work that would sing to a kid
who hung around the mall in Wichita, or bring a thrilled audience of
poets to its feet on a Friday in the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York
City or Cafe Babar in San Francisco. We acquired our material
through hard living, and our sense of form from filling out endless
job applications to McDonalds in a depressed economy. We acquired
our styles in letters written to parents back home in Des Moines or
Fayetteville or Sharky's Rest, mailed from slums in the city, full of
furious invective, and pleading, and cunning manipulation for a
hand-out. We acquired our skills, our style, from conning for a meal,
or a welfare check or hustling for a place to crash in a homeless
urban wilderness. Pastoral elegy just wouldn't do to express what we
felt as we lay near death on emergency room tables waiting to have
our rape and gunshot wounds treated. Ours is the poetry of an
immense and universal suffering, something beyond the rigors of the
academy. Our poetry is bright with beauty and anguish like the mad
and sorrowful colors of Van Gogh, a new kind of impressionism.
Whatever loose training we have, whatever skill, were acquired and
honed on the sharp edges of our desperation. Our poems are,
literally, screams from the bottom of our souls: God is their editor,
raw truth our revolution. The poems emerge cadent, accurate, fiery,
explosive, with rap on their tongue; yet every cheap, stupid, rabid,
impossible influence is apparent in a Spoken Word poet's work, from
screen magazines to Hallmark cards to MTV-style prattle to the
National Enquirer to comic books to Mad magazine to Your Horoscope
Today, all tossed in with influences glimpsed whole browsing for
books you can't afford by Baudelaire, Poe, William Carlos Williams,
Troupe, Ginsberg, Auden, Patchen, Baraka, Coleman, Rimbaud, Bukowski,
DiPrima, you name it. You stand there reading alone, unknown and
transfixed in the bookstore aisles. Around you a whole town or city.
Who will listen to what you say? And out of the crazy cauldron of
microphone, poet and audience, magic happens....It's all HOWL. Back
then in the Eisenhower Age it took only one poet to write a
testament. Today it needs twenty-five, fifty, a whole nation. The
whole battery of new poets nationwide is the collective HOWL of the
United States generation of the nineties leading us into a new
millenium.
San
Francisco
October
20, 1998
7.
Congratulations to Janet Colligne, whose Petals of the Rose website,
celebrating its first anniversary this month, has received its first
website award for literary excellence from Writer's Quill.
8.
And finally, in remembrance of England's Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes,
who left his body on Thursday, October 29, just weeks after winning
the 1998 Forward Prize, the most lucrative poetry prize in Great
Britain, awarded for "Birthday Letters": have a safe
journey, Mr. Hughes.
Anyone
wanting off the mailing list, just e me.
Much
love,
Stazja
Subj:
Fresh air
Date: 11/2/98
5:49:21 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: hlarew_at_juno.com
(Hiram G. Larew)
To: Stazja_at_aol.com
Stajza
- Thanks for providing the gust of fresh air at Friday's reading
in
Riverdale. And for signing me up on your list serve. Keep going!
Hiram
(the tall guy).
-------------
POWER
Whenever
they have to
Chickens
look up at us
Just
like depending on when
Kids
won't be quiet if we ask
Or
how it rains so hard sometimes
There
are questions
The
best thing to teach someone is to swallow
The
best kind of angry to get is ribbon
The
best place to surprise yourself is in water
I
for one will never give up
Even
if I have to
I'll
keep trying just like burlap
As
much as I have to
Like
someone nearing to leave.
Subj:
RE: Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Date: 11/2/98
2:29:45 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: larry_at_jaffe2.com
(larry jaffe)
To: Stazja_at_aol.com
very
great n/l staz.. but curious why you did not mention debra's name in
your
visit to noho... just curious not tryin to rag or nothin.
me*
-----Original
Message-----
From:
Stazja_at_aol.com [mailto:Stazja_at_aol.com]
Sent:
Sunday, November 01, 1998 11:49 PM
To:
Stazja_at_aol.com
Subject:
Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Subj:
sonnets
Date: 11/2/98
6:49:49 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: rc.mtgravshs_at_uq.net.au
(Mount Gravatt State High School - Resource Centre)
To: stazja_at_aol.com,
mgreene_at_sage.net
Stazja
a
year old. Congratulations. There's a critical anthology here called
"A
Map
of Australian Poetry", edited by Prof James McAuley, one of the
generation
of post-WWII poets.
A
Couple of sonnets (published some time back) that you might wish to
use,
or
just enjoy.
Widowed
Scotch
Subj:
Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Date: 11/2/98
11:38:26 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: 106251.103_at_compuserve.com
(Alex Krysinski)
Sender: 106251.103_at_compuserve.com
(Alex Krysinski)
To: Stazja_at_aol.com
(INTERNET:Stazja_at_aol.com)
Abuse
soft
as a caress
on
unmarked skin;
gentle
as a word
that
undermines,
breeds
doubt.
Abuse
of
tenderness
and
trust
that
you can't quite
speak
of
but
you feel it
somewhere
deep down
even
though the child
has
become woman.
It
stires like a phantom
when
you can't trust,
when
you just can't love
even
though you want to.
And
the abused abuse
themselves
or others
until
someone or something
brings
light into that dark corner,
that
secret self
that
frightened child
who
still clings
to
the woman.
Someone
or something
who
can dispels those Demons,
sends
them back
to
where they came from.
Abuse
leave
scars
that
are not visable
until
someone or something
brings
them into the light.
Alexandria
Janenna Krysinski 98.
Subj:
Re: Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Date: 11/2/98
10:42:04 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: headvent_at_email.msn.com
(Tim Gibbard)
To: Stazja_at_aol.com
Hey
stranger. Sounds like things are moving right along for you. Congrats
on
the
year anniversary of your publication.
England
is terrific. We had a great holloween! We celebrated at a manor
called
Ashton Court. It was, as they say, spot on. Lot's of groovy costumes,
ancient
architecture, and of course techno music.
Oh...I've
just looked out the window and noticed it's not raining. It will
probably
not rain for the next fifteen minutes...this is a bittersweet
revelation.
If
you wouldn't mind, could you give me the info (email addresses if
possible)
of the place you read. I'm trying to fill up a tour with as much
as
possible for Tim and I. I'd be much obliged.
I
believe you can come home again and will be doing so in March.
woo-hoo.
Can't
wait to see everyone.
Take
care,
genevieve
Subj: Re:
Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Date: 11/2/98
4:00:46 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: AARD1VARK
To: Stazja
happy
birthday newsletter!!
and
thank YOU, Stazja, for all the hard work you put into it week after
week after week.
It
is a breath of fresh air in my mailbox every week!
david
alvey
Dallas
Subj: Re:
Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Date: 11/2/98
12:44:18 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Poetessz
To: Stazja
In
a message dated 98-11-02 02:47:07 EST, you write:
<<
Imani
Springer, 1998 (age 12) >>
good
god...delightful !
thanks
for remembering my email addo. i wiped my files in Sept. trying to
download aol 4, so empathize. miss very few of them tho', so there's
some consolation.
i
do occassionaly print my entire email list, tho, and file hard copy,
as precaution.
l,
z*
Subj:
Re: Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Date: 11/2/98
7:02:38 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: cupofjoe_at_us.ibm.com
(Joseph Conklin)
To: Stazja_at_aol.com
Stazja
RE:
Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
I
can only show my appreciation for your great efforts with this.
Flashlight
Kerosen
lamp in the night flickers with the smell of light
Messages
linger when left on your fingers ideas have only half life
a
mental gieger counter scans a page picking morsels with eyelids
savoring
the taste of free ideas lingering on my tongue.
joe
Subj: Re:
Austin Poets at Large #50 - Map of Austin Poetry
Date: 11/2/98
6:52:34 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: EDENANGEL
To: Stazja
In
a message dated 98-10-19 10:20:43 EDT, you write:
<<
>>
HELLO
STAZJA!!!
HOW'S
ALL MY POETRY PALS , I SURE MISSED YALL. MY HARD DRIVE WENT OUT AND I
JUST GOT MY COMPUTER BACK FROM THE SHOP AND NOW I' M ONLINE AGAIN.
I
AM SO EXCITED TO GET BACK INTO THE POETRY MIX AGAIN .
PLEASE
E-MAIL AND LET ME KNOW IF THERE IS ANYTHING READINGS OR COMPETIONS I
CAN ENTER IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I'LL TRY TO SEE YOU GUYS TOMORROW AT
RUTAMAYO OR AT THE EBONY SUN THIS WEEK.
HOW
DID IT GO IN LAS VEGAS ? , HOPE IT WENT WELL AND THAT YOU HAD A
LOTS
OF EXCITEMENT.
LOOK
FORWARD TO SEEING YOU SOON.
P.S
TELL EVERYONE TO E-MAIL ME ,I AM SO GLAD TO BE BACK ONLINE
HARVE
THE LOVE POET
Subj: Re:
Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Date: 11/2/98
12:35:01 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Poetessz
To: Stazja
In
a message dated 98-11-02 02:47:07 EST, you write:
<<
Happy
birthday to you
Happy
birthday to you
Happy
birthday, issue 52
Happy
birthday to you!
>>
congrats
!!
ml,
z*
Subj: thanks
for the blurb in your newsletter
Date: 11/2/98
10:07:44 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Lilacborn
To: Stazja
Orkie44 (Tom) told me about the
anniversary promo you did in your newsletter. Thank you. That was
very nice of you. One of my friends, Magic12000, (John Dwyer)
discovered that most of the United States will have a very
spectacular night sky tomorrow. One of the most brilliant in about
300 years. I asked him to check out Austin for you. Here is what he
came up with. Hope you enjoy.
Subj: Re:
Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Date: 11/2/98
3:46:53 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Punsdotcom
To: Stazja
Brava
to
Imani's
"Mini Me"
And
HB to your NL
If
I understand this correctly your looking for sonnets.
It's
easy to have a favorite
with
only two in my
catalog.
[
this term used as i have no chap book]
So
my favorite sonnet:
A
Sonnet
[English]
A
sonnet sweet and rife with rhyming prose
with
pleasant words within its structured scheme,
to
please and titillate the ears of those
that
care to read another poets dream.
~
I
give these thoughts for all the eyes that see
and
pray they’ll read, perhaps, to shed a tear,
or
smile or laugh at least perchance agree
this
labor love should reach another's ear.
~
I
walk the shaky walk that newness brings
and
dig into another’s common ground,
I
hope for some that read, this sonnet sings,
for
others taste, at least they find it sound.
~
Advice
for those who shun this sweetened fruit
this
meal of words can leave you sate and mute.
~*C*~
Subj: Re:
Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Date: 11/3/98
2:28:43 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Punsdotcom
To: Stazja
Carl
Cacciatore
Pelican
Island NJ
:-]
Subj: Re:
Apal Map of Austin Poetry #52
Date: 11/2/98
5:11:39 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Goxando4xf
To: Stazja
good
to see yah back in one piece
heres
my latest
Queen
,we worship you on a pedestal , worked
the
hive as a soldier should, are you the queen
that
rules, or maybe just a common whore rushed
on
the throne in the chaotic fuss of disguss
among
us, that wrencks of pus,
please
, let me off this bus of distrust
~~~
You
crashed our kingdom, destroyed the honey
in
your quest for money ,punished and banished
what
you couldn't tarnish , step from the throne, you
worthless
drone sewn to a lies flown, your a caterpillar
not
a butterfly,you walk on leaves ,you dont fly
with
style ,we wish you well,
bye,
lets break all ties that lies
~
end
~
oct.31,1998
From: Poetessz
To: Stazja
In
a message dated 98-11-02 02:47:07 EST, you write:
<<
Happy
birthday to you
Happy
birthday to you
Happy
birthday, issue 52
Happy
birthday to you!
>>
congrats
!!
ml,
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