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PRAYER IN A CARDBOARD BOX
by Dara Mandle
She lured the rock doves
in colorless frocks to her tangle
of plastic bags, swelled their trills
until the soft notes scored
the shades of white and black
like an old movie.
When pigeons
scattered to trees she flew off
with them; flapped her worn-out coat
and broke into bodies; rose at once
with thirty pale under-wings
to sleep in sugar maples.
Cor van den Heuvel raises a toast during his reading at Storefront Gallery. Photograph by Jeniece Primus
Dara writes:
It's a rave! Jeniece Primus at Arts in Bushwick has written a great review of my poetry reading with Cor van den Heuvel at Storefront Gallery.
Poetry and baseball. If you don’t see the connection then you probably weren’t at Storefront last night for the latest of the Bushwick gallery’s monthly readings.
The evening was dedicated to that most gentle of verse-forms: the seventeen-syllable haiku. Dara Mandle, a published poet and critic, opened up with some goodies of her own before turning the floor over to Cor van den Heuvel, a poet, editor and haiku super-fan, who ran with the Beat Generation of the mid-1950s.
Check out the complete review here, along with more of Jeniece's photographs of the evening.
Dara writes:
You are invited to mark Cor van den Heuvel's first trip to Bushwick!
The foremost proponent of haiku in this country, van den Heuvel, editor of the Baseball Haiku anthology (Norton), will read his work at Bushwick's own Storefront Gallery on May 4. Yours truly will introduce him and read a couple of her own poems. Here he is discussing the anthology on NPR.
Cor has been writing haiku since he heard Gary Snyder mention it in San Francisco in 1958. He has become an expert on the form and is a captivating reader.
Again, here are the details:
Cor van den Heuvel reads at Storefront Gallery
16 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn
(3 short blocks from the Morgan Street L train stop)
Wednesday, May 4, 7:30pm
Free and open to the public
Drinks afterwards around the corner from the gallery at The Narrows