I will put it into words (live)
Ken Rumble reading from “A Monologue for Voices” (with Dorothy Cowen) live at UNC Greensboro, October 9, 2007.
Ken Rumble
24-Hour Breakfast (live)
Ken Rumble reading “24-Hour Breakfast” live at UNC Greensboro, October 9, 2007.
from A Monologue for Voices
The poetry festival has ended. The poetry festival ended today. Today is May 22, 2005. Sometimes today is Tuesday. -I am translating.- Tuesday is not the day the festival ended. The festival ended today. Today is Sunday. Sunday is a day of the week. The day that Sunday is is the day that today is […]
from St. Apples
The war is always there but we do not go there. *** The tools of war are always there and there are always the tools of war. The tools of war are used. War makes them useful. The tools of war and the war is between their eyes and my eyes and your eyes. The […]
from President Letters
Dear Mr. President, It is with no small regret and uncertainty that I say – rather that I write – that this is the last letter I will be writing you as part of the current project. I, as I hope is true for you, came to be eager for these moments – the precise […]
Yankie My
The fowl mouthed speak only of squaws: trouble now and then – trouble with the salad, onion, beets, and halitosis. One to go: where are the mules? who sold the ass? The cold’s in and hate has no fire – sleep on, Dalmatian, the clawed saver – sometimes pockets appear without pants. Take a pile, […]
Mom Thinks You’re
Where is this room I know the stars shine now about me – we have no place to go – so let’s find Albert Mooney – the stairs don’t reach the top we are light as seeds – take the ferry over away from the boulder tonight, tonight, tonight we’ll find the owl’s den – […]
