CUSHING STREET POETRY
a reading by Sue Carnahan &
Aaron Cohick
8:00
pm, Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
at Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant, on the patio
198 W. Cushing Street
in Tucson, Arizona
just south of Tucson Convention Center
1 block east of Main Street
admission is FREE
The Cushing Street Poetry Series is sponsored by
Chax Press
Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant
&
POG
Cushing Street Poetry Series is inaugurating it's 2006-2007 with a terrific
pair of readers. Tucson poet Sue Carnahan and \ Phoenix poet and book
artist Aaron Cohick will be sharing new work on Tuesday, September 12th
at 8pm. New Lights Press books (http://www.public.asu.edu/~acohick/)
will be for sale at the reading. Please email Dawn Pendergast (dawnpen@gmail.com)
or Paul Klinger (lekling@cox.net) if you
have any questions.
POG & CHAX PRESS events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima
Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment
for the Arts. Please call Chax Press at 520-620-1626, or email
chax@theriver.com>chax@theriver.com, for more information.
Sue Carnahan has an MFA from the University of Arizona and is currently
finishing a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology. Her chapbook AUTO
REPAIR won the Weldon Kees Chapbook Award and was published by The Backwaters
Press. A finalist for the Kore Press First Book Award, she has had poems in
6x6, Shampoo, and can we have our ball back?, among others. Carnahan lives in
Santa Cruz County.
Aaron Cohick is the founder, editor, & bookmaker of the NewLights
Press, which just published Silver standard by Justin Sirois. Cohick is
currently pursuing his MFA in Printmaking at Arizona State University in
Tempe. Check out
http://www.public.asu.edu/~acohick/ to learn about the NewLights Catalyst
Project.
New Work by Sue Carnahan
Rabbit Foot
*The goddess is alive and magic is afoot*
the goldfish is in armor and crackers are toast
my razor is a Princess and luck grows squirrelly
my parents live in state and draw conclusions
owls are in cahoots and kneesocks are in style
one rabbit stares down another taillights up
Ron Silliman on Aaron Cohick's design of Silver Standard:
A book that arrived this week – which appears to be an interesting,
well crafted serial poem in two parts – came in a book jacket
that makes use of 374 staples, 96 vertical staples
(8 columns of 12 each) both front & back and 91 horizontal staples
(7 columns of 13 each) again both front and back, thus 187 staples
for the front, 187 for the back. All of the staples, I should note,
are facing outward. Not one is stapled through a signature,
which the book does not require since the inside cover is adorned
with a number of magnetic strips, the sort you find on refrigerator
magnets these days.