GAIL EASTERLING’S Fear of Fear
November 19, 2012
CHECK OUT SPIRAL ORB 5
September 18, 2012
SPIRAL ORB is an experiment in permaculture poetics, juxtaposition, interrelationships, and intertextuality—a cross-pollination. The opening poem composts fragments from each of the pieces in Spiral Orb. Standing also as the table of contents, each line is embedded with a hyperlink to its original piece. Once at each piece, you will find links to the other pieces. Spiral Orb Five is a special issue on A Poetic Inventory of Saguaro National Park.
MP3: YOU by Charles Bane Jr WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT ! THANKS FOR THE GOOD TIMES ! HAMEL ! MORGAN ! MUMOLO ! DRAI !
February 25, 2012
THANKS FOR THE GOOD TIMES! LOVE, V
from MONEY ON IT by Sara Mumolo TEXT
from DARK AGE by Jenny Drai TEXT
GENTLENESS by Wendy Burk
February 19, 2012
A LITTLE MYTH FOR JANE
February 14, 2012
YOU have my heart.
HOLIDAY MONDAY
February 13, 2012
THANK YOU for your friendship and your poems… Love, V
mp3: The Disorientation of Sweet Violence by HARMONY HOLIDAY TEXT
MY HEART GOES OUT TO ! Drew Krewer ! Trevor Calvert ! Oscar Bermeo !
February 11, 2012
THANK YOU GENTLEMEN, FOR YOUR WRITING AND FOR GUEST EDITING!
YOU HAVE MY HEART +V
mp3 from ARS WARHOLICA by Drew Krewer TEXT & BIO
mp3 HOW THEY MAKE AND KEEP THEIR STATUES by Oscar Bermeo TEXT & BIO
Marisa Prietto- You’re mine you
February 6, 2012
SUDDEN SOUNDS by MARISA PRIETTO +V
for the text click here
BROADSIDES ! MASSEY ! HARJO ! KAHLO ! HASS !
May 28, 2011
click to hear: AT ONCE by Joseph Massey
click to hear: from FOR A GIRL BECOMING by Joy Harjo
click to hear: IN THE SALIVA by Frida Kahlo translated by Robert Hass
Happy Saturday and Happy Listening +V
! DUNCAN ! REYES ! TWO POEMS FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE
April 30, 2011
click to hear: [ASKING] by Barbara Jane Reyes from Poeta en San Francisco
click to hear: THE SONG OF THE BORDERGUARD by Robert Duncan
I’ll be back next month with more favorites- ANY REQUESTS…
Happy Saturday +V
EMPATHIC ATTUNEMENT by Valyntina Grenier
February 27, 2011
click to hear: EMPATHIC ATTUNEMENT by Valyntina Grenier
EMPATHIC ATTUNEMENT
I LOVE YOUR BRAIN
Here. Will you take this stone
and make a wish, then give it to the miller.
She’ll make you a page
while I sleep so the robot
can change me. I’ll wish for ice cream.
ICE CREAM
Surrounded by these columns, each heart-shaped capitol crowned w/ a brain,
I’d like to give you this tiny robot.
Hold it like a river stone,
here, in the palm of your hand, while I light the page.
Here’s to watching the sky change w/ my love, the miller!
“I’ll STAND BY YOU” SANG THE MILLER
waiting in line for a scoop of ice-cream.
She hid a love note on a page
of our notepad for me to find. Her brain
suits my heart like a precious stone
in its circle of rose. I hope she’ll forgive me this robot.
DEAR DA VINCI ROBOT
Thank you for helping the miller,
her Quern-stone
was blocking our path to the ice-cream
parlor. Origami brain-
I’m so glad you answered our page.
PAGE
Thank you for being brave enough to use a robot
to remove the endometriosis and organs that pained me, that seized my brain,
my spirit, the heart of the miller.
Now we can argue about ice-cream,
a simple scoop vs. blended w/ toppings on a cold stone.
DEAR DR STONE
Thank you for wondering. I feel as light as a page
descending in air. I feel hope. Eating ice-cream
can bring about joy. I stopped for some on my way to the miller.
It helped ease my brain.
“Ice-cream,” I sang at the cornerstone,
“Brain and Heart–” right here on the front page:
“Robot surgeon grants a wish,” for my love, Jane Miller!
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SATURDAY READING ! Pablo Neruda’s POETRY !
February 12, 2011
click to hear: Pablo Neruda’s POETRY English translation
The text is from poemhunter.com.
Happy Saturday +V.
IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT ! WE HAVE POEMS TO LISTEN TO ! FOUST ! JENSEN ! MILLER ! HASS !
January 30, 2011
In the tradition of the real live Back Room Live, formerly held at Mc Nally’s Irish Pub in Oakland Ca. the last Saturday of the month at 7pm, I’ve chosen four poems to read to you. Hope you like hearing them as much as I love reading them +V.
click to hear: BREACH AND ORISON I. TERROR OF BEGINNINGS by Robert Hass from Time and Materialsm
click to hear: BAD BOATS by Laura Jensen from Bad Boatsm
click to hear: VOW by Graham Foust from Leaving the Room to Itselfm
click to hear: CODA from A Palace of Pearls by Jane Miller
DON’T FORGET TO SEND US YOUR WRITING ON LOVE!!! We’ll be posting writing and voice files about LOVE all February long. Send us a page, paragraph, chapter, scene, essay, article or poem along w/ your photo JPEG, bio, and if you have one or can make one, an mp3 file of you reading the piece. We’re reading Now – February 14th 2011. So, send us some LOVE to backroomlive@gmail.com
BACK ROOM LIVE! 