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

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