Literarisches Events (in and around Lawrence KS)

  • PATRICIA LOCKWOOD. Lawrence. Thursday, September 11, 7:00 p.m., Spooner Hall, KU Campus.
  • PATRICIA LOCKWOOD. Lawrence. Friday, September 19, 7:00 p.m. Lawrence Public Library. Sponsored by Raven Bookstore.
  • DENNIS ETZEL, JR. & RACHEL CROSS. Lawrence. Thursday, September 25, 7:00 p.m., Raven Bookstore, 6 E. 7th St.
  • TONY TRIGILIO. Lawrence. Thursday, Oct. 2, 4:00 p.m., English Room, Kansas Union, KU Campus. FREE.
  • CALEB PUCKETT & JUSTIN RUNGE. Lawrence. Thursday, October 16, 7:00 p.m., Raven Bookstore, 6 E. 7th St.
  • BEN LERNER. Kansas City, MO. Thursday, October 23, 7:00 p.m., Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus, 4415 Warwick Blvd.
  • KRISTIN LOCKRIDGE & ROBERT DAY. Lawrence. Thursday, December 4, 7:00 p.m., Raven Bookstore, 6 E. 7th St.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Variations on a Theme by Sandra Simonds


         and Joe said, “Everyone at this table

        has to write a poem with that line in it.”  

                                     - Tony Trigilio

“I only have eyeliner – 
do you have a pen?”

only you pen
do you have a do-liner?

have pen? eyeliner?
only do I know you?

a have have only eye;
I-liner I-liner!

a have I do I do I have
have pen? pen?

do only one pen?
have you pen-eye?

holy delighter
dew heave a pan

I travel with Einstein
do happen Oppen

You ought to die trying
sloppy as sin

The Bonn-ITM
eyeliner pen!

ever yodel aye –
pave no nylon hula hive

I only have geek-eye –
do you have a pen liner

“. . . all she wrote her
highbrow pencil broke”

“I am eyeliner.
There is a registry?”

I only have guideliners
have eyes for you (pen)

Have only you I do;
have eyeliner too –

and you have a pen –
I only have lines