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This Thursday, August 4th, we are excited to have Julie Rogers and Adrian Arias read!
Julie Rogers began reading her poetry in San Francisco cafes in the late 1970’s. She has published six chapbooks, and a Buddhist end-of-life manual titled, ‘Instructions for the Transitional State’ (Vimala, 2007), around which she founded a non-profit program last year, ‘TLC Transitional Life Care’. Her recent books are a full-length selected, ‘House of the Unexpected’ (Wild Ocean Press, 2012) and Street Warp (Omerta Publications 2013). She has read her work on public radio, television, and at many venues in the northwest. Her poems have appeared in various magazines, literary journals and anthologies such as Beatitude – Golden Anniversary 1959 – 2009, Poetry Flash, Sparring with Beatnik Poets, Big Scream, The Cafe Review, Abalone Moon, the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, and others. Last year, she and her husband, SF Beat Poet David Meltzer, put out a CD, ‘Two-Tone Poetry & Jazz‘, with saxophonist Zan Stewart. “Few poems are written as close to the heart — no extra words just soul meanings…” Michael McClure, beat poet, novelist, artist. Visit the website at www.julrogers.com.
here
just to look past this face
at anything else
the calendar is full
of other names
the page empty
with thoughts
gazing across a ravine
sky is everywhere
fear shoots through
a falling star
i cannot find myself
in the light
as i watch
a map unfolds
directions depend
on how they are given
where is someone
who knows them?
lost, a word
i am
here is the body
i live in
where is mind?
-Julie Rogers
8-3-15
