Your Crack is Showing

| 30 March 2009

In our new epoch’s poetry economy we’ll be miners of light; heading straight for the cracks, bringing everybody with us. And if we have to pay taxes on all that light exposure, we’ll do it in the exuberant, though suicidal spirit of Russian poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky in his poem, “Conversation With a Tax Collector About Poetry.”

‘...a poet’s word/ is your resurrection/and your immortality/citizen and official/...but how incendiary/ the burning of these words/...[they] will move millions of hearts/for thousands of years.’

From now on, if you have a poetry event or any poetry related concern or situation, please let me know. 

Here’s what’s shining through the cracks for April:

Sunday, April 5th, Favorite Poems Project:Spring Poems.
4-6 p.m Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. SLO.
Hosted by Ellyn Winslow. Featured Readers: James Cushing and Dian Sousa. For more info: www.slofavoritepoems.org

Sunday, April 19th-Corners of the Mouth: 7p.m. Linnaea’s Café, 1110 Garden St. SLO.  Featured Readers: Harry E. Northup, Holly Prado, James Cushing. Open reading to follow.  For more info: www.languageofthesoul.org

1st Wednesday of every month, Another Type of Groove
7:30 in Chumash  Auditorium, Cal Poly, U.U. For More info: http://studentlife.calpoly.edu

Saturday, May 2nd –SOMETIMES IN THE OPEN:
California Poet Laureates read from this new Anthology. Funded by the California Arts Council 7-9 p.m.
San Luis Arts Center 1010 Broad St. Treats and Wine