Patrick Rosal & Penelope Pelizzon at Bowdoin College, April 19, 2007. Photo by James Marshall. On April 19, 2007, From the Fishouse and Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges were pleased to present a reading by V. Penelope Pelizzon and Patrick Rosal at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Made possible by support from the three colleges […]
On April 30, 2005, From the Fishouse celebrated its official launch at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine with the unveiling of our new website and poetry readings by Adrian Blevins, Tyehimba Jess, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, and Patrick Rosal. You can listen to each poet’s full reading (approximately 10 minutes each) and/or you can listen to the […]
Patrick Rosal reading Saint Patrick, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005.
Patrick Rosal reading “As Glass,” recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005.
Patrick Rosal reading Poem, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005. My two-and-a-half-year-old daughter was dancing – dancing! – to this poem while Patrick read. It doesn’t get any better than that. -M.O’D.
Doesn’t the eye love the ragged tear of sky the treetop-shred horizon The eye— after all— loves the dizzy dip of a road: its precarious tilt towards a ravine only wrist-deep water and giant smooth rocks to break the sky’s fall The eye loves the bit peach window agape buildings caught mid-swagger across a skyline […]
I add up the times I’ve fantasized about women I’ve seen but never spoken to and divide that by the hours I drive past cemeteries and add again the weight of breath in your mouth measured in the ancient Tagalog word for yes — but the number always comes out the same So I subtract […]
This part’s real: the kid sways near a curb (the club’s fuck-hard flash of neon lights keeps time inside) his top lip split mouth popped into hellglow blossom eyes swelled shut like peaches Small half-as-dark and twice as yapping drunk as you he swings forward and lands a clean right cross you confuse with a […]