Robert Bense and Ann Conradsen to Read SPC March 12
Presents Robert Bense, and Ann Conradsen Monday, March 12, 2012 at 7:30 PM 1719 25th Street at SPC Host: Emmanuel Sigauke Robert Bense grew up in southern Illinois on a farm, worked in business and taught at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in many magazines, including Agni, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, Poetry , Salmagundi, Shenandoah and The New Republic . A book of poems, Readings in Ordinary Time, was published by The Backwaters Press. He now lives in Sacramento, California. Sample Poems Guarding Paradise Cracked mirrors of the stars. Abyss of hand-cupped darknesses dithery like short wave. Messages between the Cyclopses and The Underworld intercepted. Broken glass of villa walls. Confinement to small talk after brevity of sex. In the cities cardboard tenements of the lost. Trickle of urine and a pigeon. Shadowy men with holy griev...