On my birthday, 10.28.06

breasts are luminous

   

I grab them     exaggerate their orbs

        loaves of heaven

                nutmeg-flecked, exuding light

Frank

10.28.06

First Video: Music & Poetry

 http://frankshome.org/YouTube-1.html

“Movie Music-Improvisation” by The Electric Flag, Dec. 1967

The POEMS:
1. old time religion
2. the whole dream 
3. a mantra means
4. from Frank's Home: Part II
5. Language
6. My daughter enters
7. words go out
8. A Convertible Galaxy
9. red blooms on yellow
10. O My Words
11. Chorus Through My Veins

All poems copyright 2011 Frank Parker.

using dashes, same color as background, as spacers

Moon Flowers Sky

sparrow
----------clouds
--------------------dust
bowls
---------breasts
-------------------step
gate
--------hinges
------------------grain
spiral
-------lightning
------------------rain

Frank Parker
from Win Po: a work in progress

Audio of our reading now available!

 

GEORGE MATTINGLY / FRANK PARKER with LYON LEIFER

Saturday, March 26, 8 PM @ the Drawing Studio
33 S. 6th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721

Audio of our reading is now available for your listening pleasure on POG Sound! George Mattingly’s poetry is brilliant. His delivery immaculate. Lyon Leifer’s ragas on the bansuri are masterful. One person said to me afterward, “Finally! The way your poetry should be heard.”

a night of poetry and music

GEORGE MATTINGLY / FRANK PARKER with LYON LEIFER

Saturday, March 26, 8 PM @ the Drawing Studio
33 S. 6th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721
$5 General, $3 Students

George Mattingly is a book designer, writer of fiction, essays and poetry, photographer, and one-time letterpress printer and typographer. He has been a columnist for msnbc.com and taught publishing at The New College of California, San Francisco. He edited the literary magazine Search for Tomorrow (1969–1974) and founded Blue Wind Press (1970–). His books are Darling-Bender(1970), Breathing Space (1975) and the forthcoming new & selected, a while (2011).

born

into a

world

I

would not

could not

know

•

gravity

waves

hello

— George Mattingly

Frank Parker is the author of three books of poetry, Heart Shaped Blossoms: 1993-2007, zig-zag journeys (2009), and Win Po: a work in progress (2011), all from his Obscure Press. He edits the online journal Frank's Home: An Active Anthology of Verse and publishes widely on the web. He’s on the Board of Directors of POG and is the sound technician for POG and Chax Press readings. Frank maintains the web sites for POG and POG Sound.

Frank will collaborate with Lyon Leifer, bansuri master, for this reading.

O My Words
for Luis Garcia

a flute, a reed

cut from roots

a ring of bone

everyday air

skinny bird song

Palo Verde limbs

cats walk up and down

adobe yellow wall

— Frank Parker
from Win Po

Lyon Leifer is recognized in Europe, the Americas, China and India as a master flutist who performs both on western flutes and on the bansuri (north Indian keyless bamboo flute). After early studies in Chicago with Emil Eck and Walfrid Kujala, Mr. Leifer attended the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Julius Baker. After graduating, he became a member of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Pursuing an interest in improvised raga music and flute playing in India, he then accepted a Fulbright Grant to study there with Devendra Murdeshwar, the inheritor of the legacy of the great Pannalal Ghosh. Remaining in India for five years, Mr. Leifer won the praise of Indian audiences and critics for his authentic renditions of raga melodies.
Lyon Leifer's web site