Poet, spoken-word artist and creative development advisor Marc Zegans joined host Dennis Morton for the third time this year. Marc’s first visit was on June 28, and featured a discussion of spoken-word poetry and a book-with-CD anthology titled Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation. The main subject of visit number two, on July 26, was the second volume of that collection, titled Spoken Word Revolution Redux. To borrow an old movie promo tagline: this time it’s personal. Publication is imminent for a collection of Marc’s own poetry, to be titled The Underwater Typewriter. Marc and Dennis read and discussed a number of poems from the new book, along with a number of other topics. With Marc’s kind permission, here’s another poem from The Underwater Typewriter : Lotería Will you bring me the gift of luck tonight, my love? Or press in my hand a wrinkled cardboard icon, corners frayed, el paraguas, for the rain or perhaps the sun, if luck should shine from your heart mi corazon, the luck I miss between strands of your golden hair? Will you give me the gift of luck tonight, my love, la botella pouring Chilean Malbec into your hand-heated glass la estrella bearing your name close by the belt of Orion as you sit upon my denim couch in my cottage in Santa Cruz? Will you give me the gift of love tonight, my luck, sure in your smile? Or will you hand me la pera on a note riddled with despair because you have waited too long in the hand of a criminal la mano, who bleeds your passion leaving your face pale and wounded? Will I give you la luna the gift of lovers, blood orange rising over the eastern bay on this sandy cloud burned night lightly covering your eyes with la corona, the hat of kings as you drift quiet into dreams or will I simply watch you sleep at a distance, through eye of mind as I walk the beach reading poems of love to your sleeping heart? You, la rosa, I want you, come. Then we will make our lottery you and me, luck of our casting cards of our making, unfolding our joyous riddles with delight.
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