This months Corridor takes a deeper dive into Febraury. Gives up some heart shaped food for thought on a paper platter. Here is the cover, below are the contributors. Keep your heartlight lit and your eyes searching for this piece of found art around town. Copies go out starting the first two weeks of February. Coffee shops, book stores, Little Free Libaries and the like.
Tag Archives: love poetry
Poetry Club Talks…Love Poems, Frost and Pastan
Ron hosts this stimulating discussion seeking the answer of what constitutes a love poem. The group considers three unlikely, not typical love poems by Robert Frost and Linda Pastan. What elements tell the reader they are about love or expressing love?
Poetry Club Talks…Translation with Sean Dwyer
https://youtu.be/kDveHzDSvnY?si=0aAAx93WNPwgSx_Q Topic: TranslationHost: RonPoem: W.S. Merwin’s translation of Pablo Neruda’s “Poema 20”Recorded: January 9, 2021 Dwyer vs Merwin / Poem 20 We have a guest this week! Author, poet, musician, Western Washington University Spanish professor, and host of the monthly Village Books Open Mic Sean Dwyer joins the club today. Under the microscope are twoContinueContinue reading “Poetry Club Talks…Translation with Sean Dwyer”
Poem: Unfinished Basement
Unfinished Basement By Shannon Laws Figure out how I fit in your world as I discover the shape of your heart push me into your foreign form as the chalk line between us dulls Memory foam bed faces north in your cold unfinished basement headboard is bare drywall with taped-over nails primer and mud aContinueContinue reading “Poem: Unfinished Basement”
Poem: TAPE
TAPE by Shannon P. Laws Woo that worm out Open your mouth over a warm bowl of cream And wait Say goodbye to the dark home Coil out from the foreign body Tell the cold words To back out of my heart
Event: You Love Me, You Love Me Not
You’re invited… Save the Date! This event is an early 5:00 p.m. set designed for you and your sweetie to enjoy a special day together, a passionate spark to get things started. Also, a great time for anyone who is a fan of love and wants to support the Alt Library and local artist. (IContinueContinue reading “Event: You Love Me, You Love Me Not”
Poem: Paper
Paper by Shannon Laws We need a place -a room of paper Let’s write our story, slowly on the walls then burn all evidence One fleck with “ah” I’ll keep in a locket
Poem: Misfits
Misfits evening sun sets on my chest light moves over slow breaths empty pubs play lonely string songs in three keys do you know my hymn can I sing your tune separated by table and fret, an empty bent glass I play a wink you play the moon in the middle we never meet Our shipsContinueContinue reading “Poem: Misfits”
Christmas Card 2014
Holiday Happy Dance Merry Christmas from the S.P. Laws staff! -Shannon, Brad, Vin, Robert, and Byung-hun Click HERE to view our holiday card in Super-High-Speed Definition™ So, how was your 2014? What a mixed bag of nuts, right. A large group of protesters stage a “die-in” on the street in response Monday in SeattleContinueContinue reading “Christmas Card 2014”
Poem: Handcraft
I hide my hand from my lover Dripping in apple’s wine The season is now morning The harvest hangs on the vine I shall pick the fruit Forgotten by my lover I shall reap the award Of the farmers labor Dance across the leaf That shines with dew Hop along the river A trail weContinueContinue reading “Poem: Handcraft”
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