September 18 - Scott Creley EP Foster Library in the Topping Room at 7:30pm 651 E. Main Street - Ventura host Phil Taggart open mic The series is every Thursday: EXCEPT the fourth Thursday of the month Scott Creley Two Cups of Tea Poured into the Grass Out in the garage, under a dirty light bulb, I read that the part of the brain that holds the capacity for faith has the volume of a popcorn kernel. This seed lights up for meditation, for sweaty prayer, or the low uneven gurgle of a woman who speaks in tongues and retains nothing of her ecstatic prayer. This idea makes sense to me because yesterday, my father, an undertaker, called and told me how he’d guided two little girls to their parents’ grave where they laid out a blanket and four cups of tea— two of which they eventually poured across the dead grass just below the headstone. With my eyes closed, the phone humming against the side of my face, I think that I feel that knot of cells flaring to life in the salty nebula of my grey matter, like a searchlight piercing the water to find a destroyed car with two parents, but no little girls. Maybe this clump of cells is like a signal flare clawing at the sky in bursts of yellow and red before falling back to earth and hissing out. But possibly this knot is nothing more than an exposed light bulb hanging in a garage, collecting dirt and the cooked skeleton of moths until the wire inside snaps under the strain of constant illumination. - Published in Miramar 2 Future Featured Readers September 25 NO READING October 2 Florence Weinberger October 9 No Reading (the library is being painted) October 16 David Oliveira October 30 Susan Florence November 6 Jean Colonomos November 13 Chryss Yost November 20 Christina Pages December 4 Mary Kay Rummel December 11 Chris Buckley January 15 Jules Nyquist & John Roche January 29 Shelba Cole Robison February 11 John Ridland – Lincolniad also at the EP Foster Library Saturday October 4 at 7pm Ventura Countys Poet Laureate Mary Kay Rummel will read from her book, The Lifeline Trembles. The book won the 2014 Blue Light Book Award.
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