For people in the Syracuse area, I’ll be doing a poetry reading and film screening this Saturday, Oct. 4., at 5 p.m. at Parthenon Books on Salina Street.
Poecabulary front cover.
I’ll talk about the genesis and evolution of my minimalistic book project Poecabulary and then screen the documentary short Ralph Rotella: The Sole of Syracuse, co-directed by my former Syracuse University colleague Shane Johnson.
Ralph’s work bench. Photo Credit: Shane Johnson.
And speaking about Poecabulary, the book was released about three months ago. In preparing for the upcoming talk, I thought about a couple of questions I would like audience members (and you as well) to ponder: Do two words on a page constitute poetry? And can Poecabulary be considered an actual book, a real poetry collection?
And even though I succeeded in spitting these vocabulary words out of my system, I can’t stop writing down other word pairings. It’s a ceaseless literary project and an incurable disease.
So here are some other combinations that have emerged since the book’s publication in June.
Francis DiClemente 