Mark Salerno (poet) March 18, 2004

Thurs. March 18, (special non-wednesday lang harm)
___Mark Salerno special guest!___

Yoko Ono wrote "Mark Salerno's Method is an inspired work which will inspire many." And Poet C.D. Wright had this to say about it: "If these pieces/glimpses/points in review could be molded into popular songs (happily they resist) I'd buy every cd. Method is a spoken nightscape, a starry, commiserating agent between Bronk and Creeley, a dry-eyed testimonial of ambivalent standing between our incurable existential awareness and bottomless communal longing. Salerno puts a clearheaded list of key words in circulation and returns to us a plenary of mostly single-sentence poems, a cavalcade of impeccably broken lines, not forgetting the invisible crack in everything. What little caviling goes on is directed at the poet acaviling. He is, in all modesty and honesty, "just doing his job" ? insuring that what we really think, and what we actually say, is a tight fit." Salerno's new book is called So One Could Have. From 1993 to 1999, he editedArshile, one of the most innovative and well-recognized literary magazines ever to come out of Los Angeles. In addition to Mark Salerno, members of the APG and perhaps other special guests will be reading or performing their work.