[Thespiritexpress] Fwd: August Third Thursday Poetry Featuring a Virtual Reading with Oakland Poet, the Badass Bookworm Cassandra Dallett

Thu Aug 13 23:01:10 PDT 2020

Cool Ron!

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 3:26 PM Ron Nadeau via Thespiritexpress <
thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

> Something for you poetry hounds ~~~~ This is part of the series that Blake
> More puts out ~~~~.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From: *blake more <blake at snakelyone.com>
> *Subject: **August Third Thursday Poetry Featuring a Virtual Reading with
> Oakland Poet, the Badass Bookworm Cassandra Dallett*
> *Date: *August 9, 2020 at 6:59:28 AM PDT
> *To: *<rnadeau at mcn.org>
> *Reply-To: *blake more <blake at snakelyone.com>
>
> Third Thursday Poetry August 2020 ~ Virtual Zoom Reading Invitation
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> *AUGUST 2020*
> *20*
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> *Virtual*
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> *Point Arena*
> *Third Thursday*
> *Poetry*
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> *Sponsored byArena Theater *
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> *Poets & Writers *
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> *OAKLAND POET CASSANDRA DALLETT FEATURED VIRTUALLY AT POINT ARENA THIRD
> THURSDAY POETRY*
>
> 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.
>
> Cassandra Dallett is a five-time Pushcart nominee. She has been published
> in *Sparkle and Blink, Great Weather for Media, Sensitive Skin, The
> Oakland Review, and The East Bay Review *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.
>
> Her first full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless (*Manic D Press) *was
> released in 2014. In 2015, she authored five chapbooks, one of them, On
> Sunday, A Finch (*Nomadic Press) *was nominated for a California Book
> Award*, *2018 brought the release of another full-length collection,
> Collapse, also on *Nomadic Press*, also nominated for a CA Book Award.
> For links and more check out cassandradallett.me
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>  and look for the Forthcoming A Pretty Little Wilderness from Be About It
> Press.
>
> *To watch or participate as an open mic reader, please
> email blake at snakelyone.com <blake at snakelyone.com>. 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.*
>
>
>
> *Peace, health and poetry!Blake *
>
> *Jails Have ATM Machines Now*
>
>
> Plastic cards buy commissary and child support.
>
> For an extra three dollars
>
> you can add a personal message
>
> Don’t worry about us we’ll be fine
>
> or We love and miss you
>
> Happy Birthday
>
> After we slide our credit cards
>
> a woman behind us struggles
>
> to shove in her few wrinkly dollar bills.
>
> On the block the kids stay out all night
>
> lining the stairs with hundreds of flaming prayer candles,
>
> spray the walls for Poodie from two six,
>
> Implore him in death to shine on.
>
> Each night they bring
>
> the biggest red heart balloons
>
> the kind sold for valentines and high school graduations.
>
> They fill the street with beating heart cars
>
> double parked and spilling liquor in his memory.
>
> When the phone rings you press five as fast as you can.
>
> So as not to lose a precious moment of his voice.
>
> You accept that he can only speak to you
>
> on a police recording.
>
> There are options, more money for more minutes.
>
> You can buy them so he can’t call anyone but you.
>
> You pay for time with no idea what words will fill it.
>
> How many ways can you say love or absent.
>
> You describe reaching for his side of the bed
>
> using his chap stick because it’s the last thing
>
> to touch the softness of his lips.
>
> Lips, you fell on and into in a bar,
>
> lips you woke to, like a life raft at sea.
>
> Behind security glass cracked and dry,
>
> they are an un-kissed desert.
>
> You roll his chap stick on the thirst of your lips
>
> until you reach the empty plastic.
>
> You run your hands between your thighs
>
> where he buried his face at night,
>
> feel nothing but exhaustion. Down the street the kids are rapping,
>
> dressed up, passing blunts
>
> blowing smoke at the unfair sky.
>
> You place candles in your windows, burn sage
>
> you mourn with them.
>
> You have suffered a kind of death also.
>
> In the morning, you pour two cups of coffee
>
> empty his into the garden out back.
>
> The dogs are bored with your sadness
>
> refuse belly rubs even when offered
>
> you look the dog in her eye
>
> share the disappointment of you own hand
>
> because indeed, it is not his.
>
> You internet search the things you can and can’t send him
>
> these companies have made phone apps to send your money to jails.
>
> These enterprises who make the packages you send your beloved,
>
> the same who offer to send your college student modified food products
>
> You tell them all the ways to recreate crackers, ramen, and chips.
>
> to pretend it is sustenance when in fact it is currency.
>
> The first time you saw your son’s college dorm it struck you
>
> the same companies build prison cells,
>
> prisoners build the beds and desks in both,
>
> to house your child, your man, perhaps yourself, one day.
>
> Outside at the memorial they are barbequing tonight.
>
> you put chicken in the oven
>
> can’t light charcoal without your grill man.
>
> you tell yourself you must live,
>
> you tell yourself to write,
>
> wait his call, wait and wait, lose weight,
>
> memorize the number that has replaced his name,
>
> find his white dress shirt bought for the courtroom
>
> limp in the dryer,
>
> walk his letters to the mail box,
>
> tell yourself you are living
>
> a brain connected to a body,
>
> a hand to put money in the machine.
>
> A heart commodified
>
> a special message
>
> Don’t worry about us we’ll be fine.
>
> Cassandra Dallett
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