Also: Paul’s last workshop of the season before the postcard fest: https://paulenelson.com/life-as-rehearsal-for-the-poem/

And the postcard fest itself! www.popo.cards

Read/Study Mackey’s Double Trio

If not the culmination of a 40+ year serial poetry effort by perhaps the world’s leading living practitioner of that stance toward poem making, it is a huge new hunk. Matt Trease and I look forward to digging into Nathaniel Mackey’s Double Trio twice a month via Zoom. It’s my Zoom Room if you have been there before and if not, email me at splabman@gmail.com & we’ll send the link.

What: Reading/Study group for Nate Mackey’s Double Trio

When: April 25, 2021 & Second and Fourth Mondays at 5pm PDT

Where: Zoom

Why: From the publisher’s website: “For thirty-five years the poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive-making like no other: two elegiac, intertwined serial poems—“Song of the Andoumboulou” and “Mu”—that follow a mysterious, migrant “we” through the rhythms and currents of the world with lyrical virtuosity and impassioned expectancy. In a note to this astonishing box set of new work, Mackey writes:

Submitted by Paul Nelson

"A few years ago on a trip to Tibet, I found myself in a strange place. Under awnings people sat on the ground, using a hammer and chisel to cut words into stone slabs. The work was difficult, tedious, long. Sharp sounds made me flinch. Stone dust wrapped the people in a dense cloud. What were they doing? They were inscribing sacred texts on the stones, which they then stacked in thin layers together to build a high temple. The craftsmen admitted that most likely they would not live to finish the construction. There were a great many of these tablets. The texts remained inside the walls. Nobody would ever read them, but they were the foundation of the building. A temple of words. Isn't this poetry?” (Aigerim Tazhi)

Submitted by J.Kates

I hope you’ll be able to join me and the fabulous poet, Kelli Russel Agodon, as we close out National Poetry Month, Friday April 30th at 6:00 Pacific. The reading is being put on by Third Place Books and you can register here. (And, yes, it’s all still on Zoom.) You can buy both our books at that same link.

Submitted by Debby Bacharach

The Surrealist’s Toolkit: Generating New Poems from the Subconscious World

with Kelli Russell Agodon & Susan Rich

Join Kelli & Susan at their ONE-DAY Workshop where we will write together and generate new poems together on ZOOM.

DATE: May 1, 2021, Saturday from 10 AM - 2:30 PM PST

PRICE: $199

Click Here for more info

Submitted by Susan Rich

After earning two degrees in geology (Bryn Mawr College and Indiana University), Pamela Hobart Carter became a teacher and taught for more than thirty years. Her plays have been read and produced in Montreal (where she grew up), Seattle (where she lives), and Fort Worth (where she has only visited). Her poetry has appeared in Pif, The Seattle Star, and Barrow Street, among others.

Pamela Carter’s exquisitely original new collection of poems is a great deal more cohesive than its title, Held Together with Tape and Glue. Honed by her scientific training as a geologist, Carter’s keen observations dissect the “everydayness” of living from genus to species, from one daily version to the next, and from one epiphany to another. She is “the shrewd detective in a village” where she combines the mythic with the scientific in a Blakean universe where a constant self-becoming rules.
-Koon Woon, poet and publisher of Goldfish Press

HELD TOGETHER WITH TAPE AND GLUE by Pamela Hobart Carter

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Like a gull or osprey, or even, a cloudhorse, the poems in Pamela Hobart Carter’s Held Together with Tape and Glue move with grace, drama and purpose. “Patterns are easier to see from the sky” she writes in “Notice,” and thus these poems soar and swoop through meditations on reality and perception, on preparation and change, on doing or not. Don’t let the title fool you: these poems are not makeshift or rickety. They are shiny, sleek feathered movements from the pages to our minds.
–Ben Kline, author of Sagittarius A* and Dead Uncles

Pamela Hobart Carter‘s Held Together with Tape and Glue holds the reader in a “kingdom of velvet and silver and lost jewelry,” a place where “wavelengths of imagination” reach toward “the whole ocean of dreamed life” in all its vivid strangeness. These poems dip into a palette rich in philosophical reflection—“How did we get so good at calendars and clocks,/still ignorant of true passage?”—and they engage with the art of other poets through erasures and ekphrastic poems. The lyrical moments, insights, and visual acuteness of these poems make Carter a poet well-worth traveling with.
–Priscilla Long, author of Holy Magic and Crossing Over: Poems

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Submitted by Pamela Carter