by Kenneth Patchensee also the video from Aaron Bergner below The narrowing line.Walking on the burning ground.The ledges of stone.Owlfish wading near the horizon.Unrest in the outer districts. Pause. And begin again.Needles through the eye.Bodies cracked open like nuts.Must have a place.Dog has a place. Pause. And begin again.Tents in the sultry weather.Rifles hate holds.Who…
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Los Angeles, November 25, 2021For immediate release Foundation Aquarius pays tribute to one of California greatest poets, Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972). In recognition of K. Patchen, the L.A. Poetry Beach Festival will be held on his 110 th birthday, december 13, 2021. ThemeThe theme of this year’s L.A. Poetry Beach Festival is ‘get ready to die’.…
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This year the #beachtobeach #poetrytrain will depart from NYC and the poetry train will bring poets together from the following 12 states. Don’t worry if you life in one of the other states or even country because everybody can join L.A. Poetry Beach 2021. Register here! New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinios, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota,…
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Hi poets, on december 7 I will take at 3:40 p.m. the poetrytrain to Chicago. Please jump on the train in New York or one of the 19 stops till Chicago. I would like if there is always one poet at my side. Travel with us, talk with us and write with us. Just do…
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by Charles Bukowski I drive to the beach at nightin the winterand sit and look at the burned-down amusement pierwonder why they just let it sit therein the water.I want it out of there,blown up,vanishedwith madmen sleeping insidethe burned-out guts of the funhouse . . .it’s awful, I say, blow the damn thing up,get it…
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Finally the L.A. Poetry Beach entrance tickets are ready. It’s a free festival but for the first 50 visitors we will have a ticket with on the back the signatures of the 12 poets on the festival.
The text in the top I will replace tomorrow with my own handwritting. Now time to go to bed!
From November 21st we will have 4 tiny advertisements to get poems for L.A. Poetry Beach 2021. Hereby the advertisement but please buy the LA Times and cut the originals they original advertisment will bring you fortune.
In Bill Buford Journal: Granta 8: Dirty Realism, Writings from New America – May 1, 1983 he coined the term Dirty realism to define a North American literary movement. Writers in this sub-category of realism are said to depict the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language. We prefer to…
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