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*Photo by Stephanie Bassos, Chicago-based photographer.

Franki Elliot is a 20-something author from Chicago and blogs for us every Monday.  Curbside published her first book Piano Rats (October 2011). We are publishing her second book in late spring 2013.  For more Franki typewriter stories visit http://frankielliottypewriter.tumblr.com/

And then it rained on the roof of the tent, and I stared out onto the thick savannah before returning to bed. I wanted to bring you here, to smell pepper and red earth on you by lantern light and see its dust like campfire on your face. I wanted Kenya in your hands, reaching into acacia trees and all of me loving you then. The stains on giraffes dappled light worn like lozenges of twilight on your blouse. We make love under canvas away from trackers sleeping at the base of trees, unafraid of nightly roars of destiny.

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Charles Bane Jr. is an American Poet.  This is from a series of letters Charles has written to Donald Hall, former Poet Laureate of the U.S.  Curbside Splendor published his first book The Chapbook (July 2011) and will publish his second book New New Poems / Nuevos Poemas (Fall 2012) via Concepcion Books, a new Curbside imprint, with the work presented in both English and Spanish.  New Poems / Nuevos Poemas is now available for pre-order here. 

In Curbside Sounds we feature authors we dig reading their work or telling a story while sitting on a curb or their favorite bench, at a bar, at a recording studio, and sometimes at home.  For this installment we've got Chicago author Jac Jemc reading an excerpt from her debut novel My Only Wife.  Recorded at the iconic music club The Empty Bottle as part of Curbside Splendor Publishing's A Night of Words & Music on Thursday July 26, 2012.

Jac Jemc's work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Caketrain, Handsome and Sleepingfish, among others.  She is the author of a chapbook of stories, These Strangers She'd Invited In (Greying Ghost Press) and the poetry editor for decomP Magazine.  You can find her here:  http://jacjemc.com/

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Jac Jemc Reads at The Empty Bottle by Curbside Splendor

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*Photo by Stephanie Bassos, Chicago-based photographer.

Franki Elliot is a 20-something author from Chicago and blogs for us every Monday.  Curbside published her first book Piano Rats (October 2011). We are publishing her second book in late spring 2013.  For more Franki typewriter stories visit http://frankielliottypewriter.tumblr.com/

Dear Don,

Isn't it strange to grow older and feel, as I do, more loving of life every day? To watch the curtains from the open window raise their flags and a day stoke with fire? We're "moved on noiseless paths", years are fanned away but routines seldom change. We rise, work in fractions of words and sometimes yield the world. It is a miracle. When I write well, the poem is a discovery I happened near. I think the Greeks devised gods when they "bore their syllables across the sea"; with dawn at their back they materialize on computer screens.

Then, there's the nearby sea and the rain. Shakespeare was lucky; he could use words like "beteemed." We are modern and the religion of words is brittle. But the sea is still a chest of anemones and the clouds are Shakespeare's and woven wings.

Best,

Charles

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Charles Bane Jr. is an American Poet.  This is from a series of letters Charles has written to Donald Hall, former Poet Laureate of the U.S.  Curbside Splendor published his first book The Chapbook (July 2011) and will publish his second book New New Poems / Nuevos Poemas (Fall 2012) via Concepcion Books, a new Curbside imprint, with the work presented in both English and Spanish.  New Poems / Nuevos Poemas is now available for pre-order here.