Alan King & Reuben Jackson at Sunday Kind of Love 12/16

December
 Sunday Kind of Love
featuring
Alan King &

Reuben Jackson 

     

    

Sunday December 16, 2012

   5-7pm

Busboys and Poets

2021 14th St. NW

Washington, DC

Hosted by:

Sarah Browning & Katy Richey

$5

As always, open mic follows!

  

Alan King is an author, poet, and journalist who lives in the DC metropolitan area. He writes about art and domestic issues on his blog at alanwking.com. In addition to teaching at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, he's also the senior program director at the DC Creative Writing Workshop, a Cave Canem fellow, and VONA Alum. Alan is currently a Stonecoast MFA candidate and has been nominated twice for a Best of the Net selection. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Drift (Aquarius Press, 2012) is his first book.

  

Reuben Jackson lives in Burlington, Vermont, where he teaches English at Burlington High School. He's also the host of Friday Night Jazz With Reuben Jackson on Vermont Public Radio. For 20 years, he worked as a curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. He's had poems published in 25 anthologies and in a long-gone volume of verse entitled fingering the keys.

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Poem of the Week: Alan King

Uprising

after W.S Merwin

The president of pride's been overthrown

by a coup.

The president of humility shakes his head.

"If only he had listened," he says.

But it's too late. Pride's flag is burned

in front of government buildings.

The money marked with his face

has been tossed into a bonfire.

A pile of ashes collects

under Pride burned in effigy.

The president of sympathy

is nonexistent. It's a kingdom

in a mirage. Its citizens are dazed

by thirst. Hunger's as abundant

as air and trampled sand.

Hindsight's mistaken for the babbling

village idiot. He staggers through

the troubled kingdom and spots Pride

with its wrists and neck in the guillotine.

The wise man takes a swig from his flask,

shakes his skinny finger, and goes away

tsk tsking.

-Alan King

Used by permission.

Alan King is a poet and journalist, living in the DC metropolitan area. He's also the senior program director for DC Creative Writing Workshop, a Cave Canem fellow, VONA Alum, and MFA candidate at the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program. King's been nominated for both a Best of the Net selection and Pushcart Prize. His first collection of poems, Drift, will be published January 2012 by Willow Books.

King attended Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness 2008 and 2010.

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