LESTER SHUE'S MUSINGS # 3

LESTER SHUE'S MUSINGS # 2

LESTER SHUE'S MUSINGS

ADMISSION

I LOVE THIS FUCKER.....

Weather Wherever

I went to the Pete's reading last night. Took the bus, sprinted, fell down (once, almost twice) and arrived late. Despite the trauma or in spite of the trauma, I enjoyed myself.

Yes, the poets were fine, but what caught my attention was the host, Ms. Browning. Countless have been the number of times I have attended readings where the host introduces a writer by either reading a shiny list of publishing credits or offers some too-personal story: a recollection an embarrassing anecdote; or leaves for the audience a thicket of author praise to extricate themselves from.

To the point: I found her intros to be more interesting (in some cases: especially the fox) than the poems themselves which isn't intended to insult any of the writers, but to heap some praise sugar on Pete's true sweet, Ms. Browning.

Walt Says..........

Be Among the men the women the multitude for.....


Jennifer Michael Hecht, Theresa Sotto, Julian Billups, Tony Mancus and
Mark Horosky

This Friday--March 16th-- 7pm

FREE!

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of books on philosophy, history,
and poetry. Her most recent poetry collection, Funny (University of
Wisconsin), won the Felix Pollak Prize; her debut The Next Ancient
World (Tupelo) was awarded the Norma Farber First Book Award by the
Poetry Society of America. Her newest book of history and philosophy,
The Happiness Myth (HarperCollins), is due out this April.

Theresa Sotto's recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Spinning
Jenny, Coconut, Shampoo, Typo, and ZYZZYVA . A chapbook of her poems
will be published in the Coconut Chapbook Series in Spring 2007. She
lives in Santa Monica, CA.

Julian Parke Billups' poems have appeared in Colorado Review, AGNI
online, Barrow Street, Salt Hill, and others. His manuscript, 'The
Repetition of Which,' is, he thinks, with just a couple more deleted
words and tightened line breaks, with an added article or two, and the
complete omission of the capital "I," finally finished. He lives and
works in Manhattan.

Tony Mancus writes with an eye trained on the glaringly obvious. His
work is consistently uneven. He teaches and works as a part time
editor and lives in Sunnyside, Queens. He sometimes wears a beard
while he writes, other times he takes it off and leaves it sunning on
the windowsill.

Mark Horosky is mostly like an elusive gray fox.


Only at Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718) 302-3770

"L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan.

LISTENTOIT

BREWDOGS

A COLOQUIAL EXPRESSION (USED IN THIS CASE IN THE SOUTHWEST I.E. TUCSON, ARIZONA) RELATING TO THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL BEVERAGES: BEER. THIS EXPRESSION IS FAVORED BY THE POETS RESIDING THERE.

THE GIFT, THE GIVING

And my glad hands and giddy eyes are making much praise of the Octopus chapbooks they recieved a few days ago. Mathias Svalina and Zachary Schomburg et al have produced a snazzy collection of eight separately bound chapbooks presented (affordably (28.00) and deliciously) together. Octopus Books publishes two full-length books of poems every year, in addition to solicited chapbooks, broadsides from poems published in Octopus Magazine, and other heroics.

Also a plump porkchop of Congratulations to Adam Chiles on the publication of his first book of poems. Details Forthcoming.

Post, Toast, Boast.

I saw a seagull flying like struggle in this morning's snow fall. The words "flying like struggle" don't make as much sense to me now as it did when I was on the M train heading into Brooklyn. I enjoy seagulls more in the city than by the shore.

It is worth mentioning some upcoming events:

The Burning Chair Readings Brooklyn Poetry Bazaar will take place Saturday March 10th, from 2;30-7 at Galapagos in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The event will feature Fanny Howe, Rod Smith, Anselm Berrigan, Karen Weiser, Christian Hawkey, Jess Mynes, Farid Matuk, Susan Briante, Anna Moschovakis, Matvei Yankelevich & Ben Mazer, with music from I Feel Tractor.

Directions to Galapagos:
70 North 6th Street
between Kent and Wythe
Detailed directions available here: http://www.galapagosartspace.com/directions.html

AND PETE'S CANDY STORE:

March 16 – Mark Yakich & Jennifer Michael Hecht & Theresa Sotto

REUNIONERS

If memory serves, I think Mathias Svalina discussed this in one of his blog entries. In the spirit of copycat, I will too. The reunions: a.The act of reuniting. b. The state of being reunited. 2. A gathering of the members of a group who have been separated: Pixies, The Police, Bauhaus, Dinosaur jr., Gang of Four, Sisters of Mercy,The Stooges, Slint (?), The Cars (Ocasekless), Lemonheads.......I am not for reunions. At all. Let the past be (what it shall be (hmmmm?). The motivation seems to be dollars and cents as if these (in some cases) 90's alt music acts want yearn desire from a bitter root to cash in on the nostalgia of their listeners.............Just what we needed.

THE DAVID BYRNE MEDITATIONS

"From here to the moon is risin' like a discotheque": David Byrne

There is no reason for posting David Byrne's face except that it strikes me as very clean. After rain that came to my attention after sleep, a hard rain full of witnesses, scenarios, taxis and utterances and a warning that said its a violation of Federal law to use in a manner inconsistent with its labeling, I walked outside into sunshine so bright: rude. But who would think that the sun is rude? Think of photosynthesis, tanning, solar powered machinery, rainbows in soap bubbles, and shadows. With the sun bearing down on me like a daydream the weight of a kitchen, I generated face. My face was just accepted that that’s the way it would be.

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