If you are in the LA area, I am going to be reading at 8:30 pm this Friday, March 22 in Santa Monica as part of the Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading series. After the featured poets, there will be some time for open mic. Sign ups start at 8 pm.

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1436 2nd Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401

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I am fortunate enough to be reading again with Brendan Constantine.

Ochsa Spoken Word Performance January 2012. Noct by Brendan Constantine

The evening is hosted by poet Tresha Haefner.

Tresha Faye Haefner's featured reading at Cobalt Poets at the Cobalt Cafe, Canoga Park, CA, 1/31/2012. ~ video by: www.Poetry.LA

To give you a sense of what I will be reading, here is one of the poems I read recently.

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Ochsa Spoken Word Performance January 2012. Noct by Brendan Constantine

Noct

by Brendan Constantine

I was com
You said you would wai

Twelve hundred miles in a day -
I counted houses, then their ligh

Came home to an empt
Not even my shir
my green shir

Are you wearing it now?

It’s hot, the house is hot; the walls,
even the handle on the refr

What the f
What can anyone hope to keep?

If either of us could answer,
wou

I was lucky enough to read with Constantine yesterday on The Bluebird Reading Series, an amazing series hosted by Poet Jessica Ceballos in Highland Park's Avenue 50 Studio.

Later this month, Constantine and I will be reading together at the Rapp Poetry Saloon (8 p.m. March 22). 