A Memorial Reading for Todd Moore at the Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Todd Moore (1937 – 2010)
A Memorial Reading
Tracklist Disk ONE: 1. Mark Weber, MC 2. Todd Moore 3. Mark Weber 4. Brent Leake 5. 6. Alex Gildzen 7. Cirrelda Snider-Bryan 8. Mark Weber 9. Marilyn Stablein 10.11. Lawrence Welsh 12. Don McIver [...]
swimming with whales
in memory of Todd Moore
there’s ever a time
for the sea mew’s cry
ever a roll
to the ocean’s skin
always a sleep
for the dreams
of the dead
to sail
to the home
of all winds
NB. If any should wonder at the imagery used in this, I suggest they check the last paragraph in Todd Moore’s essay on my writing on [...]
he lived ghost he lived phantom
his fast draw vision
his electricity
his weave
his pages in the dark . . .
-Tony Moffeit
Please join us for a night of poems, songs, visions, ravens, gun molls, sorcerers & ’slingers.
I spent the day in Albuquerque beginning the pre-cataloging of his papers. I filld 9 boxes with correspondence & manuscripts. there were letters from Paul Metcalf, Jonathan Williams, Theodore Enslin, Kell Robertson, Tony Moffeit. & thousands of poems handwritten in notebooks on sheets of paper on almost anything he had handy [...]
Near Full Moon
White-blue print
in mid-afternoon
talcum-blue sky
trees budding
daffodils yellow
crocus limp and
dying tree buds
red lewd bulbs
bring forth life
Todd Moore is
dead film noir
minimalist poet
making lines
of blood fire
gun shot sores
knife wounds
Dillinger gods
black and white
bullet holes of
vice and hatred
cinematic verse
stapled on paper
punk rock poet
unaware of his
connection to
the sad clueless
kids he’d fathered
like me but true
to the form he
pioneered with
Lyn Lifshin
Tony Moffeit
The [...]
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