Poet and publisher Julie Wells will be the featured reader at tonight's monthly Word of Mouth, beginning at 8 p.m. upstairs at The Globe, in Athens, GA. In an effort to become a creative one-woman force of nature, she recently launched Proetry, both as an online and print resource for local writers, as well as being the host of a weekly open-mic at Flicker Bar. Here's a sample of her work, which appeared at the Word of Mouth website. Tonight, she'll be joined onstage by an impressive cast of local writers, away from their own writers' desks and stepping into the spotlight -- perhaps with cocktail in hand.
"Public Relations"Julie WellsPay with the soles of your bootsfallenbecause of too much to and froends contradicting meaning while we workfor babies and planned fabrications.What can you make with a dollar and a girl?Pay with the ends of your nailsfallenbecause of too much lean and grab, too muchgrab and go, too much go. Planning meanings to plant in the housearound crystallized lemon trees and plastic flowers, around slidingglassbalcony doors, around Zen fountains with floating painted rocks.Stainless steel cutting boards, and I ask, what can you make with adollar?Quintessential poetry of subtraction.Subtract contradiction.Subtract meaning. Add bus schedules,the letter Q, broken shoes, shoulder-wrenchingbags, strapless bras, abbreviated text messages.Add runaway four letter words and starving toes.Can you make?With a dollar.Add a dollar.Add another dollar.Add an extra five.Same question. Add a girl.Add a girl wearing stilettos and a bustier,wearing magenta lip stain and a Coach clutch, wearingDiesel jeans and a Prada thong. What can she make?While we work for babies and forget meanings. While wework for dollars and plan meetings. While we work for we workfor soles of our fallen boots we work for to and fro we work forZen fountains,balconies, glass, plastic, lemon trees. We work to make what can wemake.
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