One more reminder: Voices of Venus hosts Where there’s Fire‘s launch at the best adult toy store in town, Venus Envy.
We’ll be reading from poems not from the chapbooks as well but here’s a line or phrase the chapbook from each poet as a teaser…
“cardboard as a trapline dance floor” ~ Robin MacDonald
“we balance between fires” ~ Mary Lee Bragg
“the days baffled grey” ~LM Rochefort
“You’re prickly with certainty” ~ Frances Boyle
“years later it starts in that field beside the abattoir” ~ Deborah-Anne Tunney
“a sutured halo’s sear” ~ Laurie Koensgen
“my wings nailed shut” ~ Jacqueline Bourque
“there’s a calamine smile in reply” ~ Pearl Pirie
“to rinse his souring” ~ Jean Van Loon