I am honored to be doing a poetry reading with Peter Neil
Carroll at Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck, NJ on Friday at 7 pm. I'll be
reading from a new collection of my poems, Earth Songs II, that I'm
aiming to publish shortly. Peter will be reading from his new work, Truth Lies on Earth: A Year by
Dark, by Bright.
Peter teaches U.S. history at Stanford. In addition to
four collections of poetry, he is the author and editor of numerous works on
impacts of historical events, including From Guernica to Human Rights:
Essays on the Spanish Civil War, Keeping Time: Memory, Nostalgia,
and the Art of History and The Odyssey of the Abraham
Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. He has also
taught creative writing at the University of San Francisco, hosted
"Booktalk" on Pacifica Radio, and edited the San Francisco Review of
Books.
Peter likes to travel around America and write poems
about head-scratching things he encounters. Here’s an excerpt from “Birds of
Dakota” in his collection Fracking
Dakota: Poems for a Wounded Land:
Old
Highway 2 leads to a steel fence
far
off the road. Circular tracks wait
for
the mobile multi-warhead vehicles.
Otherwise
only hay fields, cows, a silo,
red
barn, hills reaching to the sky—
a distant train of tankers freights east.
The
Bomb sleeps underground, its
brain,
organs, vessels hard-wired.
A
gray terminal guards the software.
The
officer looks twice, head
to
toe, decides to tell me the story
of
a farmer pestered by blackbirds.
You see, he fired
three shots
into a peach tree,
a flock of helicopters
landed, soldiers
asked him questions.
…..
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