Saturday, January 31 at 8 PM Laurel Ann Bogen, Lynne Thompson and Phil Taggart at Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd. – Venice beyondbaroque.org Laurel Ann Bogen Vocation of the Chair It longs to be the one who holds you, keeps you from falling, its curved legs shapely as a bride. The chair that would be saint. martyr, acolyte. Your little sins of omission and false pride cannot sway it -- the chair believes in you. It grows taller in the dark. Soon it will fill the room, its cushion of praise all you need in the crude and faithless light. Laurel Ann reading a poem on youtube youtube/watch?v=pCWwdF2ZOzY Lynne Thompson —last night, I dreamed I was Frida Kahlo star-tips and tight earth, beaver, pond, blue veronica. I wasn’t Frida but I was just as unfathomable being roots & thistle & blood, bulb of green earth, womb of some wingéd web-weaver, deep lover, quite still, still stone. In morning’s indigo, in the steam and sun of it all, I was supplicant before oceans, apatite, ideas and lantern- light, unhooked and needle- fine, copper-red, a cosmos— Lynne reading a poem on youtube youtube/watch?v=NEUO0wCr8mw Phil Taggart In Flight Dad’s getting the dog drunk Christmas is tomorrow as the evening wears on we pile the empties around the first parent who passes out drunk and take a picture years later every Christmas eve my sister boards a plane going somewhere anywhere Phil reading a poem on youtube youtube/watch?v=5jYAyCy7LwA LA native, LAUREL ANN BOGEN is an award-winning poet and teacher whose work has been published in over 100 literarymagazines and anthologies. For this evening, and in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the original event at Beyond Baroque, she will be collaborating with visual artist ANYA LIFFEY who will interpret her poetry on canvas. LYNNE THOMPSON’s most recent collection of poetry, Start With A Small Guitar, was published by What Books Press in October, 2013. Her first, Beg No Pardon, won the Perugia Press Book Award as well as the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writer’s Award. PHIL TAGGART’s latest book, Rick Sings, is published by Brandenburg Press. Rick Sings focus and muse is Taggart’s younger brother who suffers from schizophrenia.The reading will incorporate a video created for the book. He also published Askew with Marsha de la O.
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