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| Favorite Restaurant Joelle Hann January 2004 you keep trying to get it right alcohol restaurants tonight’s menu on the placemate again a sweat-crusted "what?" he’s just happy to see you— Jean’s spelled an S.O.S. in white tape "OWNER CUT POW_ _" in her loft windows two letters short of a message He runs his hand down your back such a huge prize you order a hamburger, drink Moon separated from Jean’s building electricity separated from her air conditioner both joined in a relationship of absence— Real estate over love real estate love Loneliness lives in the mind. Real estate lives around the body you chose loneliness over interrupting love more poets commit suicide than painters does this make them less__________ or more _____________? He would ride naked on a horse dance samba with brooms still you look on blankly it kills you, bitch. Jean paints with the power cut, he loves you though you sidestep though you come back to this place again and again trying to get it right its moon and the message written very nearly clearly before you— Joelle Hann grew up on the west coast of Canada and now lives in Brooklyn where she runs the waxpoetic poetry reading series. She has published poetry in Canadian and American journals including Grain, Fireweed, Fiddlehead, La Petite Zine, Cortland Review, The Drunken Boat and Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets. She currently teaches yoga at Go Yoga in Williamsburg and works as an editor at Bedford St Martin’s Press. |
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The Rail invites you to a reading with Jason Flores-Williams and Brian Carreira, along with musical guest Steve Strunsky of the Lonesome Prairie Dogs. Thurs., Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m. Vox Pop--Flatbush, Brooklyn www.voxpop.net |
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OFF THE RAIL FALL 2005 at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library - Grand Army Plaza |
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The Independent Press Association-NY recently honored The Brooklyn Rail with the following awards: |