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| BACK: Sam Hewitt, Tamra Higgins, Danny Dover FRONT: Nancy Vandenburgh Brunelle, Elizabeth Stabler, this poet, Regina Murray Brault, Dan Close, Joanne Mellin MISSING: Corey Burchman |
The PSOV reading at Phoenix Books in Burlington last Saturday, as a part of National Poetry Month, was notable for light, comedic verse—some of it even rhyming. I'm not used to such things in Moose Country.
For myself, I read a couple dozen quatrains—somehow squeezing them into my allotted time (did I indeed?)—including quite a few newer ones.* I started with "It's God Who Works Things Out" and worked my way through a pile of them** I'd been editing for possible production. Included were two what I call "logic" poems I'd converted to quatrains: "Maintaining Position" and "If You Solve My Riddle". I finished up, I think appropriately, with "Your Dying Star".
For the second round I read "It Goes On" and "The Flowing Ink" (both 2014). The last line of the latter poem I was futzing with till the last second.
For myself, I read a couple dozen quatrains—somehow squeezing them into my allotted time (did I indeed?)—including quite a few newer ones.* I started with "It's God Who Works Things Out" and worked my way through a pile of them** I'd been editing for possible production. Included were two what I call "logic" poems I'd converted to quatrains: "Maintaining Position" and "If You Solve My Riddle". I finished up, I think appropriately, with "Your Dying Star".
For the second round I read "It Goes On" and "The Flowing Ink" (both 2014). The last line of the latter poem I was futzing with till the last second.
*posted at this blog (click on "quatrains" label in "tag cloud" at right, or below any quatrain you discover here).
**others included "You Can't Go Home Again", "Remembering the Hug", "the Youth of Today Are Different", "As the People's Poet", "Fix a Thing for Me", "Come Visit Me in Outer Mongolia", "Way Up There In Sweden", "A Poem Is a Painting", "What Can I Teach You?", "Ignorant Bliss", "Such a Persnickety Brand", "Inked Feelings in Metered Rhyme", "The Man Who Didn't Exist", "Killer Eyes", "Then the Hugging Came", "Did You Know", "A Certain Razzmatazz", "Sundays Are for Papers",
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