Distinguished Writer Series  Presented by The City of Tacoma and Puget Sound Poetry Connection

Puget Sound Poetry Connection

The goal of our readings is to bring poets of import to Tacoma to

help local poets learn and set goals for their own works.

We also provide a showcase for local poets to share their new work.  All venues are free, physically accessible, and open to the public.   Want more information about "What's Happening" in the poetry realm: email pspc@pugetsoundpoetyconnection.org and ask to be put on the "Everything" list.

Nude (Study), Sad Young Man on a Train

    -- after the painting by Marcel Duchamp

Alone he walks the empty platform.  Later,

on the train, distant trees spool slowly by.

Slurry fields, frantic autumn colors

and the reflection of the car's interior:

vacant seats next to him

and sleeping passengers with heads

bowed to books in their laps.

The solitary man succumbs to earth's

vibration and the body's physics.  When

he disembarks, he won't know the way.

A train passes in which another sad man

contemplates his position: a single needle

on its compass and in the stars.

Janee J. Baugher is author of the poetry collections, The Body's Physics  and Coordinates of YES. Her performace venues include Bumbershoot and the Library of Congress, and she's had her poetry adapted for the stage at University of Cincinnati and Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan), She teaches literature at University of Phoenix.

A HOLIDAY PARTY

Friday, Dec. 13th

at the home of Tim & Marcia Sherry

Everyone in attendance at the reading Dec. 13th is invited.  Directions to the party will

be handed out at the reading.

The City of Tacoma and Puget Sound Poetry

Presents the

Distinguished Writer Series

Dec 13th at 7 p.m.

at Kings Bookstore (218 St. Helens

Featured Reader

Janee Baugher