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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction and Poetry Reading
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading by Richard Peabody: a romantic poet\, a 
 keen writer of farce\, a master of satire\, a political activist\, and a p
 op-culture explorer. .\nhttps://alexandria.libnet.info/event/5118530
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Peabody&rsquo\;s literary influences\, inc
 luding strands of Punk\, Beat\, Alt\, experimental\, feminist\, and politi
 cal protest\, blend with the purely lyrical to create a body of work that 
 is both profound and pleasing. Whether addressing fatherhood\, unjust wars
 \, unrequited love\, or suburban malaise\, Peabody delivers\, with both fr
 eshness and gravitas\, important information about life as we live it now.
 </p>\n<p>Peabody will read a sample of his writing and then take questions
  about his latest work\, his writing process\, his experience as the publi
 sher of Gargoyle Magazine and Paycock Press &hellip\; or whatever else par
 ticipants would like to know about his career.</p>\n<p>Few write with as m
 uch brilliance and variety as Richard Peabody. Spanning nearly forty years
 \, The Richard Peabody Reader offers us a buffet of Peabody&rsquo\;s poetr
 y and prose from 1976 to the present that includes nostalgia\, tragedy\, d
 espair\, wit\, surrealism\, sex\, and even science-fiction. This is an imm
 ensely entertaining collection of decades of work by a writer whose powers
  never lag and whose creativity seems to know no limits.<br />&mdash\;Mary
  Mackey\, author of The Dear Dance of Eros and The Last Warrior Queen</p>\
 n<p><b>I&rsquo\;m in Love with the Morton Salt Girl</b></p>\n<p>I&rsquo\;m
  in love with the Morton Salt girl.<br />I want to pour salt in her hair a
 nd watch<br />her dance. I want to walk with her through the<br />salt rai
 n and pretend that it is water. I want to<br />get lost in the Washington 
 Cathedral and follow her<br />salt trail to freedom.</p>\n<p>I want to dis
 cover her salt lick in the forests of Virginia.<br />I want to stand in li
 ne for hours to see her walk on in<br />the middle of a movie only to have
  the film break and watch salt<br />pour out and flood the aisles. I want 
 to sit in an empty theater<br />up to my eyeballs in salt and dream of her
 .</p>\n<p>When I go home she will be waiting for me in her white dress<br 
 />and I will drink salt water and lose my bad dreams.<br />I will seek the
  blindness of salt\, salt down my wounds\,<br />hang like a side of ham ov
 er the curtain rod in the bathroom<br />and let her pour salt directly on 
 my body.</p>\n<p>When she is done I will lick her salty lips with my tongu
 e<br />and walk her down the stairs into the rain\, wishing that I<br />co
 uld grow gills and bathe in her vast salt seas.</p>\n<p>&ndash\;Richard Pe
 abody\, from The Richard Peabody Reader\, published in 2015 by Alan Squire
  Publishing</p>\n<p>Hear Richard Peabody read from his work: <a href="http
 s://alansquirepublishing.com/book-authors/richard-peabody" target="_blank"
  rel="noopener">https://alansquirepublishing.com/book-authors/richard-peab
 ody</a></p>\nhttps://alexandria.libnet.info/event/5118530
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