Poet To Speak in Erie
Oh, the things I do when people ask! Listen up literate citizens of Erie: the poet Yuyutsu Sharma is coming to give a reading at the Poets' Hall tomorrow (I don't know) at 3 p.m. The other reading will be 7 p.m. Tuesday at Gannon University. I would go if I lived in Erie, but my lifelong goal was to leave, so. I do encourage you to go, however. You can read more in the Erie Reader interview with Sharma, who is oddly my friend on Facebook. ? A poem of his, to close with: Temple, London (For Maggie Hindley) Wind howled like the trumpet of a fierce Kali rushed in through the Temple Tube Station to slap my face to smother the flame of my breath and blind my vision as I soared floating up the steely slope of the escalators in spirit of reaching a hillside shrine that our goddesses always prefer to live on. Once up out of the Station in the freezing cold as I exerted to...