Showing posts with label Outlaw Poetry Network. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Outlaw Poetry Network. Show all posts

Friday, December 21, 2012

John Bennett: Small Press Friday

Photo by Tevaprapas Makklay



Paths to God - John Bennett
A Zen monk
on a
six-month
silent retreat
with a
smuggled-in
cell phone
& a
stock portfolio.   



A little something from John Bennett, who won't back down, who tells it like it is, and who has a low tolerance for BS.  Check out his work here at Hcolom/Vagapound Press and drop him a line @ dasleben@fairpoint.net.  I love his tribute to another small press icon, Kell Robertson, which you can find at the always in your face outlaw poetry network.  

John Bennett, who spends a good deal of his time doing what he notes of Kell: bringing Moloch to its knees. 



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Artwork by Katsushika Hokusai




a monk beats his bowl--
by now a dent
in the mountain! 
 Issa
 translated by David G. Lanoue 




best,
Don 

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Kell Robertson: In Memory




The Thing About Kell

  Kell Robertson 
  had no
  cell phone 
  no credit card
  no computer 
  no bank account.
  Just a
  portable
  typewriter a
  saddle a
  pistol &
  a guitar.

  Ten million
  more like 
  him &
  Moloch would
  be dropped
  to its
  knees.
                                                John Bennett
 



Above is a tribute to small press poet and musician Kell Robertson, who died this week, by another small press legend, John Bennett.   John tells me the poem will be cross posted by Monsieur K over at Outlaw Poetry Network.  Way back in issue #27 of Lilliput Review (November 1991), the following was published.




Coyote Dances
  around the edges
  Coyote yips
  and howls
  at the sky

  Coyote steals
  whatever he can
  and laughs sometimes
  when serious folk
  come around to tell him
  what is good for them
  is good for him too
Kell Robertson



Rest in peace, Kell ...


best,
Don



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