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The 92nd St Y / Makor
35 West 67th Street
WhYwords Poetry/Performance Series
Veronica Golos, Curator

invites you to:

LOVE IN MANY GUISES
A Jubilee Reading
February 14, Monday, 6pm, $8

with:
Lorna Blake
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Veronica Golos
Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Smith
Sheree Renée Thomas
HOSTED by David Pérez

After the reading, join the poets for dinner in the fabulous Makor
Cafe; books by the authors will be available for purchase. To order
tickets, phone 212-601-1000 or go to www.makor.org

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POEMS:

Lorna Blake's poems have appeared in Calyx, the Connecticut Review,
Crab Orchard Review, the Hudson Review, The Formalist and many other
journals, as well as in the anthology Ravishing DisUnities: Real
Ghazals in English, edited by Agha Shahid Ali. She is currently the
Senior Editor in Poetry at the journal Rattapallax.

PROTHALAMION
Marriage begins in the giving of words
- Wendell Berry

Love will pitch a tent anywhere -
at the edge of a cliff in a hurricane wind,
on a great ocean of grass
just as the tornado approaches
and whisper reckless promises
of permanence, sincerely meant.

Marriage vows to build a home:
walls and rooms to move between,
an attic, stairs, a few hiding places,
doors, an open window, shuttered
sometimes; now add lamps, mirrors,
a drawer that locks, a bookcase wide

enough to shelve the crowded past,
the stories yet to come. Set the cornerstone
on this wedding day - Love always
insists, it will blow over us, but storms
will come and in a house of words
you stand a chance, a fighting chance.

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Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is Trinidad-born and New York City-bred; she is a
poet, visual and teaching artist. The author of two collections of
poetry, Raw Air and Night When Moon Follows, she is currently working
on Convincing the Body, her newest collection of poems due out in the
Fall of 2005.

ARRIVAL POINT JUDITH

Rounding the bend
moon a red womb bloomed
she crossed the road
crossed again got lost in the thickets

then suddenly the frozen lake
my heart rose a high singing
strangling breath

with alabaster skin
moon and her daughters
leapt into my room

and all night wore black silk gloves
the slender light of point judith
a slight blue slip
to cover her female slickness

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Veronica Golos is co winner of the 16th Annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry
Prize for her book, A Bell Buried Deep, published by Storyline Press,
and nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Edward Hirsch. She was a 2003
recipient of a three-month residency at the Wurlitzer Foundation, in
Taos, New Mexico. She is on the teaching faculty of Makor, where she
teaches Memoir. Ms. Golos is a poetry editor for The Other Half: A
Magazine for Emerging Artists of Color and a member of 3poets4peace.

AFTER THE DROUGHT

inside their brown caps

set stiffly upon their long necks,

the Hollyhocks wait. A sudden

racking rain, then shade:

the formal front begins to peel

the bud inside the pod

flowers and pushes


color into my hand

as when your kindness

pours into

my own proud cup

your words an elixir

a taste that opens

the soles of my feet my palms

my belly my mouth; as you press

as the Hollyhocks press

to be ordained

into red and pink and perfume

into the natural giving wet.

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Patricia Spears Jones is a 2003 NYFA Fellow and author of the
collection, The Weather That Kills from Coffee House Press and the play
"MOTHER" produced by Mabou Mines. Her poems are anthologized in
Poetry After 911; bumrush, a defpoetryjam; Best American Poetry 2000
and Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard; her work appears in
Bomb, Black Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Project Newsletter,
Telephone, The World, Agni, Barrow Street, Callaloo among other venues.
She is the co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology, Ordinary Women:
An Anthology of New York City Women, and is a former Program
Coordinator of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and has taught
at Parsons, Sarah Lawrence and Naropa University.

HOW HE KNOWS ME

How he knows me
comforts me

It's that we were lovers once thing
It's that we may be lovers again thing

Or simply we love

How he knows me
panics me

Stops me from trusting my own story

How she risked much
Lost a little
Got some things
back

Where I watch my tongue
is how I hear new birds

They are louder
their music stubborn

like believing in the end of things
When we are breathing.

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Patricia Smith is a nationally recognized writer and performer, is the
author of three books of poetry, as well as the critically acclaimed
history,"Africans in America," the award-winning children's book "Janna
and the Kings" and "Fixed on a Furious Star," an upcoming biography of
Harriet Tubman. She is a Cave Canem faculty member and was recently
the Bruce McEver Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech University.

DANCE LESSON

there is nothing distinct about your
rhythm: fumbling, white boy marching
band staunch, the occasional waddle. it
took me hours to teach you to dance with
your shoulders, and years to discover
where your music actually comes from.
open your drum and encircle, strum my
visible hollows with your mouth. and you
don't move your shoulders at all. jesus.

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Sheree Renée Thomas is the editor of two groundbreaking anthologies,
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and winner of the 2001
World Fantasy Award, and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. She is at
work Bonecarver, her first novel, winner of the 2003 Ledig House/LEF
Foundation Prize for Fiction, and What Spirit Took, a poetry manuscript
for which she was awarded a NYFA Fellowship. Her work can be found in
Role Call, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Obsidian III:
Literature of the African Diaspora, Drumvoices Review, ...So Long Been
Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future among others. A Memphis
native living in New York, Sheree is the mother of two beautiful
daughters.

MAPOU WINE

I wake to hear
your breathing
a wet whisper
where thighs begin
your tongue
a startled shade of green

in the night
the Iwa walked along
the sleeping curve of our spines
they dance
as I dance for you now
with painted toes
digging in the moist earth

in these uncovered roots
rest the soles of spirit signs
sealed with honey dust
sprinkled with morning dew

I wake
to sweet tremors unfolding
beneath bare feet
my big toe dripping
mapou wine
down your throat.
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