Unforseen Benefits #1
An unforeseen benefit of being a minor poet in a small town in rural Missouri, is that I’ll never have to write an inaugural poem.
posted by John Gallaher @ 5:07 AM
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Nothing to Say & Saying It
Searching for a Heartbeat in Poetry & Music
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
About Me
- Name: John Gallaher
- Location: Maryville, Missouri, United States
John Gallaher is the author of the books of poetry, Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls, The Little Book of Guesses, and Map of the Folded World, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook from Blue Hour Press, and, with with the poet G.C. Waldrep Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, BOA, 2011. His next book will be the book-length essay-poem In a Landscape, coming out in 2015 from BOA. Other than that, he's co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press.
Upcoming Events/Readings
Summer 2011
June 27
The 2011 Sarabande Reading Series
G.C. Waldrep & John Gallaher
Louisville KY
June 28, Tuesd
Boxcar Books
G.C. Waldrep & John Gallaher
7 p.m.
408 E. 6th St, Bloomington, IN
June 29
UIUC campus bookstore
G.C. Waldrep & John Gallaher
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4 Comments:
You must run for president yourself, John. And when you win, I will write your inaugural poem. It will be about squirrels, and the moons of Jupiter, and lactose intolerance.
If the moons of Jupiter are made of green cheese, squirrels, being rodents, would like to eat them. But lactose-intolerant squirrels would have to abstain.
One does not run for president. One crawls.
"O you dig and I dig, and I dig toward you, and on our finger the ring awakes" (Celan). John, you must wake the ring.
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