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Jalalud'din Rumi
'Where Everything Is Music'
Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn't matter.
We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.
The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world's harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.
So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.
This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!
They derive
from a slow and powerful root
that we can't see.
Stop the words now.
Open the window in the centre of your chest,
and let the spirits fly in and out.
translated by Coleman Barks
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From Andy Jones:
Dear Friends of Poetry,
Poetry Night at Bistro 33 is proud to welcome Rae Gouirand and Melissa Stein on Wednesday, November 4th at 9 P.M.
The yearly anthology titled Best New Poets is edited this year by past Poetry Night featured performer Kim Addonizio, and for the 2009 edition Ms. Addonizio has chosen to include two Northern California poets who have direct connections to the City of Davis. Rae Gouirand lives here, and Melissa Stein graduated from the UC Davis MA Program in Creative Writing. Both poets will be joining us as featured readers at Poetry Night this coming Wednesday, and we hope you can join us in the celebration!
Rae Gouirand’s poems have appeared most recently in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, jubilat, Spinning Jenny, MAKE Magazine, Bellingham Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Bateau, Forklift Ohio and mint: poetry trading cards. She is the winner of a Meijer Fellowship, a Hopwood Award, as well as an award for outstanding work by emerging poets from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation in 2008. Recent fellowships include the Vermont Studio Center and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She currently teaches at UC Davis, UC Davis Extension, and through numerous community programs and private workshops. At present, she is at work on One by One, a micro poetry press inspired by real mail, vintage rock posters, and stolen moments. Rae was one of the first poets that we featured at Poetry Night at Bistro 33 in 2006.
Melissa Stein’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Southern Review, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, North American Review, Cimarron Review, and The Journal, among other journals and anthologies. She has received artist residency fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Foundation, the Montalvo Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has also received awards from Spoon River Poetry Review, Literal Latté Poetry Awards, and Robert Penn Warren Awards, as well as two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Awards and two Barbara Bradley Awards. She is currently a freelance writer and editor in San Francisco. I should add that I have known Melissa for about 15 years, so I can vouch for her!
I’ve attached a flier in case you’d like to share this information at home or work. See you Wednesday!
Andy Jones
Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. Poetry Night at Bistro 33, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 9 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 10 P.M.
Who: Rae Gouirand and Melissa Stein
What: Poetry Night at Bistro 33
When: Wednesday, November 4th, 9pm
Where: Bistro 33, 226 F. St.
Media Contact:
Andy Jones
aojones@ucdavis.edu
http://poetryindavis.blogspot.com
Bistro 33 – (530) 756-4556
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All Good Things - Jobe