Monthly Archives: March 2009

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Marty McConnell Feature and Workshop for WB’s First Draft: April 17/18, 2009

Marty McConnell is featuring at WB’s next First Draft Poetry Night on Friday, April 17, 2009 at 8:00 PM! First Draft Night, hosted by Joanna Schroeder, is a night where new poems and new poets are always welcome. Cover is $3 for First Draft and in addition to Marty’s feature, there will be an open mic — so come on out and share your *new* poetry!

http://www.lone-crow.com/BOXCAR/006/mcconnell_marty_002.html

http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/004/mcconnell_marty_001.html

Also, a bonus for April’s First Draft – there will be a workshop with Marty on Saturday, April 18! McConnell will be doing the “The Death of Nice” workshop on Saturday afternoon at the Northside library. According to Joanna Schroeder, “The cost for the workshop is $20 – a bargain basement price for the chance to work with a poet of her caliber.”

For more info about Writer’s Block’s First Draft Night, check out:

http://writersblockpoetry.rewritingovid.net/FirstDraftOpenMic.php

http://community.livejournal.com/wbpoetry

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Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading Sunday, April 19, 2009

From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday April 19, 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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When Godzilla Flattens Your Car on Monday Morning

This week’s Read Write Poem Prompt was “It’s All About the First Line.” We participants all donated a first line for other poets to use as a first line to write their poem with. I chose the line, “when Godzilla flattens your car on Monday morning,” donated by John of Transylvanian Dutch. I haven’t been writing much humorous poetry lately, but I hope you get a laugh out of this. Enjoy.

-Nicole

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When Godzilla flattens your car on Monday morning,
don’t call me. I am an exterminator of
strange creatures, both large and small –
but I do not handle

giant lizards.

I can’t even say who you’d call. That
half-stepping Chihuahua with his wack-ass
box-on-a-stick-tied-to-a-string booby-trap
would not be my first choice, and Superman’s
on vacation. Dream claims he ain’t responsible,
and Death – she only handles cases of the
human variety. I hear the X-Men are tied up
fighting their own battles. And don’t even

think

of asking Jim Morrison. He sang about
lizards, but he won’t come back from
the dead to exterminate them for you.

So when Godzilla flattens your car on Monday morning,
I don’t know what to tell you –
but don’t be calling me. I got my hands full, lady.
I’ve got

overgrown radioactive beavers
building toxic waste drum dams
and damming up the river.
(Damn rodents.)
I’ve got

mosquitoes the size of small dogs
chasing toddlers two neighborhoods over.
And I got

a house infested with green slime
and strange spectral disturbances
over on 14th Street. I tell ‘em to call
the Ghostbusters – but who gets the call?
Me. Who has to go over to the house
dressed in full HAZMAT gear and
dragging a Catholic priest along for
protection? Me. Who got some
sliming-looking motherfucker
jumping out of the walls and
threatening to turn his
nut sack into a wallet? Me.
So when Godzilla flattens your car on Monday morning,

lady,
don’t call me.
I can’t do a thing for you.
All I can tell you to do
is just sit back, relax,
and watch the destruction.

Written 3/24/09
© 2009 Nicole Nicholson except for the line “when Godzilla flattens your car on Monday morning,” donated by John of Transylvanian Dutch. All Rights Reserved on all original material by N. Nicholson.

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Resurrection

Whose Eyes Are These?
Whose Eyes Are These? by Nicole Nicholson

This was written for two purposes: 1) for Read Write Prompt #70: In Your Face (poetry, that is), and 2) a personal project.

The personal project is to write one poem per day for Lent (excepting Sundays). To help myself out, I have been pulling lines from other people’s poetry to jump-start my own inspiration. The lines I used to jump-start this one come from Jim Morrison’s “Paris Journal”. You can check out more poems I’ve written like this by clicking here. And be sure that I’ll be posting more of these kinds of poems throughout the Lenten season.

Now, enjoy the poem.

-Nicole

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Tell them you came & saw
& look’d into my eyes
& saw the shadow
of the guard receding
            - Jim Morrison

Darkness and storms in my eyes – but
I can see your windows clearly. So clearly, they

speak to me,

telling me of dreams pulverized – slapped
across the face, shoved face first into
dust, kicked until their bones cracked
and angels bled and cried for mercy on their
tortured behalf. And fantasies – drowned
until they died in twilight, exhaling gasps and then
nothing but a slow dying whimper. I know that
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The Nobleman

This was written for Read Write Poem Prompt #69: What’s Eating You? I decided to go the drink route and explored wine for this week’s poem. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

-Nicole

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to think that this wine
is liquid ghost –
grapes dying for our pleasure,
he thinks

as he takes another sip
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March’s Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading Online Now!

March’s Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading is online now! I read “Fables”, which is in a new limited-run chapbook I published, word. Check it out here:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/03/08/March-2008-Worldwide-Open-Reading

If you want more info about word., feel free to contact me backchannel. I’ve printed a VERY limited run for the upcoming “Say That You Jive Turkey” show on March 21, but I may have some copies remaining should you wish to purchase one. Watch my blog for more details.

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Patrick Russell Features at Writer’s Block First Draft Night, March 27

NOTE: THIS MONTH’S FIRST DRAFT WILL BE AT THE KICK START CAFE @ 913 N. HIGH STREET, NOT AT KAFE KEROUAC.
Please don’t show up at the wrong place…you’ll miss their poetic goodness. :)

Writer’s Block Poetry’s own Patrick Russell is featuring at WB’s next First Draft Poetry Night on Friday, March 27, 2009 at 8:00 PM! First Draft Night, hosted by Joanna Schroeder, is a night where new poems and new poets are always welcome. Cover is $3 for First Draft and in addition to Patrick’s feature, there will be an open mic — so come on out and share your *new* poetry!

For more info about Writer’s Block’s First Draft Night, check out:

http://writersblockpoetry.rewritingovid.net/FirstDraftOpenMic.php

http://community.livejournal.com/wbpoetry

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The Poet

This poem was written using words from Read Write Word prompt #11. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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You set a book to my ribs.
Night after night I unclasp it
at the mirror’s edge

alphabets flicker and soar.
Write in the light
of all the languages
you know the earth contains,
you murmur in my ear.
This is pure transport.
                     – Meena Alexander

He reads lines. He reads lines pressed into
his heart from a book pressed into his chest,
the pages filled with magic molded with his
bare hands from tumbling, lucid, luscious words
a long time ago. His book, his lines – but he’d
lost his words when they tumbled out to sea.
He had chased them down, but they had looked back,
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Mini-Feature: Celebration of Women in the Arts, Saturday, March 7

Wild Goose Creative is holding a Celebration of Women in the Arts on Saturday, March 7, from 2 – 4:30 PM. I am one of the poets participating in the event, and I will have a short set (10-15) of poems. COME OUT AND SEE ME…and all of the other poets and artists performing on Saturday!

Where: Wild Goose Creative, 2491 Summit Street, Columbus, OH
(for directions, visit: http://www.wildgoosecreative.com/Wild_Goose_Creative_|_Directions_%26_Parking.html)

For more info about Wild Goose Creative, visit:
http://www.wildgoosecreative.com/Wild_Goose_Creative_|_About.html

For more info on Wild Goose Events, visit:
http://www.wildgoosecreative.com/Wild_Goose_Creative_|_Events.html

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Say That You Jive Turkey Poetry Night – March 21, 2009!!!!

Coming at you on March 21, 2009….

SAY THAT YOU JIVE TURKEY!!!!

If you went to Say That in July 2008 and Say That Again in November 2009, you know that the “Say That” poetry nights are hosted by Kim Hight and feature some AWESOME poets. THIS TIME, we have a double feature: Flo and Jay Martinez will both be rockin’ the mic for this 70’s themed poetry night!

As always, there will be an open mic, food, door prizes. There will also be a $25 cash prize for the best 70’s outfit. Put on your bell bottoms, afros, silk outfits, pimp outfits, platforms, go-go boots, tie-dyed shirts and bring your BEST jive talk…chump! And yes, there will most definitely be a:

SOUL TRAIN LINE!

POETS: IF YOU READ OR PERFORM POETRY, PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THE OPEN MIC AND SHARE YOUR TALENT. Also, all poets with chap books, books, CD’s or DVD’s are welcome to place your merchandise on the table of items for sale.

Trust me, YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS ONE!

 

NOW, THE DETAILS:

Date: March 21, 2009
Place: King Arts Complex, 867 Mt. Vernon Ave, Columbus, OH 43203
Time: 8 PM – 11 PM (doors open at 7:30 PM)
Admission: $8

SEE YOU THERE!

 

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