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Jamie in Jacket, Debrah in Moria
Fellow New Philadelphia Poet (NPP) Jamie Townsend has a wonderful essay in Jacket 36 on the poetics of Frank Samperi and the struggles of the modern spiritual writer at large. Jamie examines Samperi’s work as a “bridge between Modernist concerns of the poetic image and mystical Christian notions of abject revelation”.
NPP Debrah Morkun has a poem called SOPHIASLOGOS in the new issue of Moria. It’s a fantastic kaleidoscopic search for a new signifier. A taste:
“like lions like megalomania like arbitrary halloo like natural language”.
Lastly, the benefit reading last Friday (with Jamie and Debrah and Angel and Brian and Keith and Sarah and myself) for BuildaBridge was something special. The audience and open mic that night may have been the best I’ve seen in Philly! Thanks to all who came out in support of poetry and arts education!
