<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Something for you poetry hounds ~~~~ This is part of the series that Blake More puts out ~~~~. <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">blake more <<a href="mailto:blake@snakelyone.com" class="">blake@snakelyone.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">August Third Thursday Poetry Featuring a Virtual Reading with Oakland Poet, the Badass Bookworm Cassandra Dallett</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">August 9, 2020 at 6:59:28 AM PDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><<a href="mailto:rnadeau@mcn.org" class="">rnadeau@mcn.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 618px;"></a></td></tr><tr class=""><td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" width="296" style="word-break: break-word; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; padding: 9px 18px; font-weight: normal;"><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><strong class="">OAKLAND POET CASSANDRA DALLETT FEATURED VIRTUALLY AT POINT ARENA THIRD THURSDAY POETRY</strong></span></span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">The Arena Theater and Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry present a virtual Third Thursday Zoom Poetry reading at 7pm on Thursday, August 20, 2020. This month features Oakland poet Cassandra Dallett (aka the badass bookworm), with open mic to follow. </span></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Cassandra Dallett is a five-time Pushcart nominee. She has been published in <em class="">Sparkle and Blink, Great Weather for Media, Sensitive Skin, The Oakland Review, and The East Bay Review </em>among many others. Cassandra reads often around the Bay Area, she hosts the monthly writing workshop On Two Six, is a facilitator at MOWW, (Mills Oakland Writers Workshop) hosts The Badass Bookworm Podcast, and co-hosts and curates the quarterly reading series Moon Drop Productions as well as The Badass Bookworms Lit Loft.</span></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Her first full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless (<em class="">Manic D Press)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>was released in 2014. In 2015, she authored five chapbooks, one of them, On Sunday, A Finch (<em class="">Nomadic Press) </em>was nominated for a California Book Award<em class="">, </em>2018 brought the release of another full-length collection, Collapse, also on <em class="">Nomadic Press</em>, also nominated for a CA Book Award. For links and more check out<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://facebook.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a8a66e224163c00a3f99a2d28&id=ecfd2ca2d4&e=122da3593d" style="color: rgb(243, 53, 6); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">cassandradallett.me</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and look for the Forthcoming A Pretty Little Wilderness from Be About It Press.</span></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><em class="">To watch or participate as an open mic reader, please email<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:blake@snakelyone.com" style="color: rgb(243, 53, 6); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" class="">blake@snakelyone.com</a>. Third Thursday Poetry Zoom made possible by the Arena Theater and continues to be supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.</em></span></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class=""><br class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><strong style="" class="">Peace, health and poetry!<br class="">Blake </strong></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed !important; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; 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padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Happy Birthday</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">After we slide our credit cards </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">a woman behind us struggles </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">to shove in her few wrinkly dollar bills. </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">On the block the kids stay out all night </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">lining the stairs with hundreds of flaming prayer candles,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">spray the walls for Poodie from two six,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Implore him in death to shine on.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Each night they bring</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">the biggest red heart balloons </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">the kind sold for valentines and high school graduations.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">They fill the street with beating heart cars </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">double parked and spilling liquor in his memory.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">When the phone rings you press five as fast as you can.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">So as not to lose a precious moment of his voice.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">You accept that he can only speak to you </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">on a police recording.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">There are options, more money for more minutes.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">You can buy them so he can’t call anyone but you.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">You pay for time with no idea what words will fill it.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">How many ways can you say love or absent.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">You describe reaching for his side of the bed </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">using his chap stick because it’s the last thing </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">to touch the softness of his lips.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Lips, you fell on and into in a bar, </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">lips you woke to, like a life raft at sea.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Behind security glass cracked and dry,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">they are an un-kissed desert.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">You roll his chap stick on the thirst of your lips </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">until you reach the empty plastic.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">You run your hands between your thighs </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">where he buried his face at night,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">feel nothing but exhaustion. Down the street the kids are rapping, </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">dressed up, passing blunts</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">blowing smoke at the unfair sky. </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">You place candles in your windows, burn sage </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">you mourn with them.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">You have suffered a kind of death also.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">In the morning, you pour two cups of coffee </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">empty his into the garden out back.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">The dogs are bored with your sadness </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">refuse belly rubs even when offered </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">you look the dog in her eye </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">share the disappointment of you own hand </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">because indeed, it is not his.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">You internet search the things you can and can’t send him</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">these companies have made phone apps to send your money to jails.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">These enterprises who make the packages you send your beloved,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">the same who offer to send your college student modified food products </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">You tell them all the ways to recreate crackers, ramen, and chips.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">to pretend it is sustenance when in fact it is currency.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">The first time you saw your son’s college dorm it struck you</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">the same companies build prison cells,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">prisoners build the beds and desks in both,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">to house your child, your man, perhaps yourself, one day. </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Outside at the memorial they are barbequing tonight.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">you put chicken in the oven </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">can’t light charcoal without your grill man.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">you tell yourself you must live,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">you tell yourself to write, </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">wait his call, wait and wait, lose weight,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">memorize the number that has replaced his name,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">find his white dress shirt bought for the courtroom </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">limp in the dryer,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">walk his letters to the mail box,</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">tell yourself you are living</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;" class="">a brain connected to a body, </p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; 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