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James Baker Hall
James Baker Hall has a new and selected out: The Total Light Process: New and Selected Poems (University Press of Kentucky). On April 7, he will be reading with Mary Ann Taylor-Hall at Fauntleroy’s Café, 640 West Maxwell Street, Lexington. On April 8, he will read at Carmichael’s Frankfort Avenue store in Louisville with the Green River Writers’ own Jean Tucker. Jean will be reading from her new book, First View of Mesolonghi (Grex Press).
The poem below is from The Mother on the Other Side of the World (Sarabande, 1999). It is one of my very favorite “ars poetica” poems:
Ars Poetica
the way a fox slips into one side
of your headlights and carrying his tail
(like a pen running out of ink) slips
out the other —
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1. Sherry Chandler&hellip replies at 6th April 2005, 9:38 am :
[...] s, 2720 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville. The bill also includes former Kentucky poet laurate, James Baker Hall. This reading, which begins at 7:00 p.m., features two of the best poets and readers [...]
2. Sherry Chandler&hellip replies at 20th April 2005, 12:12 am :
[...] run out of days before I run out of poets. But then there’s always next year… James Baker Hall Brenda White Joanie DiMartino Alan MacKellar Jean Tucker Frank Steele Mary “Erni [...]
3. Sherry Chandler&hellip replies at 26th April 2005, 10:24 am :
[...] r as I know, does not have a book out. I started this 30 days of poets and poetry with an Ars Poetica – a type of poem I’ve never been able to write – and so it seemed appropr [...]
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