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Saturday, June 11, 2005

RR's R-in-R: BLK

Rattlesnake Review's Reviewer-in-Residence, B.L. (Bari) Kennedy, has been part of the Sacramento poetry scene since his arrival from the Bronx 'way back when. His SpiralChap, Been Born Bronx, celebrates some of that in poetry and picture-poems.

Bari currently hosts a reading series at the South Natomas Library at 2901 Truxel Road in Sacramento; that series will continue this Wednesday (6/15) at 7pm with Donald Sydney-Fryer reading, among other things, Clark Ashton Smith.

Here is a poem from Bari:

PERSONAL POEM

Out maps of mouth
Words pour

Down evening sidewalk
Cracks to create sameness

I chant to change rules
Of empty space

Bitch language
Of heart
Crippled by my silence

Bari also wants us to know that, as Reviewer for the Snake, he needs books, CDs, etc. to review, so send them to him at 2619 Q St., #9, Sacramento 95816.

One other quick thing: the reading at The Book Collector that was scheduled for tomorrow (Sunday 6/12) afternoon (Arthur Winfield and Kit Knight) has been rescheduled for sometime in the future. Tonight's reading (James Lee Jobe) is still happening; tomorrow's is not.

Medusa