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 [...]
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 [...]
when dillinger
fired a
machine
gun burst
he acci
dentally
shot a
crow
then the
dead
bird fell
into the
weeds
near him
& its
blood
splashed
into his
shadow
i love
poems
where the
lines
look like
shattered
heming
way
sen
tences
the words
& syl
lables
hang
down
the page
like long
black
fuses
waiting
for
matches
they
dream
you will
light
them
they
want to
fuck
you up
good
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