Subtext continues its monthly series of experimental writing with readings by Ethan FUGATE and Daniel COMISKEY at Richard Hugo House on Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of the performance. The reading starts at 7:30pm.

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Daniel Comiskey lives and works in Seattle. With Kreg Hasegawa, he edited Monkey Puzzle, a magazine of poetry and prose. He was a guest curator for the Subtext Reading Series in the fall of 2003, and worked as literary manager for The Poet's Theater, which produced readings of dramatic works written by poets including John Ashbery, e.e. cummings, Joyelle McSweeney, and Frank O'Hara. He has collaborated with other poets on a number of projects, the most recent of which is the long poem Crawlspace, written with C.E. Putnam and forthcoming as a chapbook (with bonus CD and 3-D glasses). Translations of Hu Xudong, produced in conjunction with Ying Qin, will appear later this year in the Talisman Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry.

DID

 

hopped first

shook twice

 

fizzed close

talked spot

 

filled moon

tripped road

 

built wave

tubbed big

 

treed smell

bused west

 

had way more at home

Ethan Fugate is the author of self published chapbooks Pneumatics and The Weight of the Sea in a Lazyboy Next Door. His work has recently appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Puppyflowers.com, and poems from the Lazyboy series may be heard on Tangent Radio. Ethan is the co-editor of the journal POM2. Ethan lives in Brooklyn with his beagle Coltrane and is currently finishing book length version of the Lazyboy poems.

ALL I HAVE TO DO IS SNAP MY FINGERS

 

I know how to

put a song inside

your head.

 

Wide-screen adventure

and obsession with rain.

This dog is named Lousy.

 

Five pair dice and moonlight.

Time to suck in your stomach,

give your karaoke best.

 

 

This dog is named Terminal.

 

 

I know a way to implant this song.

Especially since it is a rain song

with five-part harmony and dogs.

 

If you put fresh vegetables in that rainy place everyone would go there-even

the Tugboat people.

 

They don't name their dogs.

This dog is Bridge,

a little farther.

 

 

Experiments With Parallelograms is this dog's Indian name.

 

 

Should we even wait for the rain to shine?

For the mad lightning to power

the new mad science,

 

or just hit the bar and let Kay Sara,

(the drag queen) sing our blues away.

Call this pup The Charm.

A piano and some strings-

in the background the cartographer

meddles with a song about a dog.

 

The rain shining

has it.

 The future Subtext 2006 schedule is:

1. July 5, 2006 - Stephen Paul Martin (San Diego) & John Olson
2. August 2, 2006 - Ed Roberson (Pittsburgh) & April DeNonno

Subtext events are co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.
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