This essay was presented at the Conference on EcoPoetics, February 22-24, 2013 in Berkeley, California, as part of the panel titled “The Book, Ecopoetic Instrument.”
“All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book. It terrifies me to think of the qualities (among them genius, certainly) which the author of such a work will have to possess. I am one of the unpossessed. We will let that pass and imagine that it bears no author’s name.” – Mallarmé, The Book as Spiritual Instrument
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Tyrone Williams: “Outsider Ecopoetics: Notes on a Problem”
Poetry: Rebecca Wolff
Romance
Sometimes even now I get this feeling
riding in the back of a small truck, covered wagon, ruched aperture to night sky, repurposed army truck, 2 am and I’m bouncing with a half dozen other hitchhikers, transient, youthful, with the soi-disant lorry driver away from the Calais ferry dock en route to Paris, overnight. To arrive at dawn. I’m traveling alone and I don’t speak the language, much. The ferry ride was rough and fluorescently lit in the cargo hold where we rode. The truck is dark and silent, jostling over ruts—no one chats. I just look out the back
the back of the truck
into dark road disappearing behind
watching it grow lighter
in my watching
my youthful
limited—only so much of it has happened
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Poetry: Sueyeun Juliette Lee
The Quiet Sun
Just as I was taught to kneel, the sun became foreign to me. How to speak after a different daylight emerges? Name that black chamber, its seamless, quiescent surface. Speak after an epoch, an apocalypse—find again that strange word for dew.
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Chicago Lit Scene: The Dollhouse Reading Series
Review by Todd McCarty, Chicago Correspondent
(left to right) Holly Amos, Dolly Lemke, Ryan Spooner
What: The Dollhouse Reading Series
Who: Todd McCarty, Roger Reeves, Sandra Simonds, and Kyle McCord
Where: 2265 W. Leland Ave, #1, Chicago, IL 60625
When: Saturday, February 16, 2013 (For this monthly series, doors open at 7:00 p.m.; reading starts around 7:30 p.m.)
Poems by each reader follow the review.
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