Marilyn Kallet's Blog

• Promiscuous? This week my favorite bookstore is...

  November 4, 2009

  • This week my fave is Deisel Books in Oakland, because they are hosting my poetry performance on Sunday, November 8th, at 3 p.m. Independent bookstores are very brave to host poets and assorted non-John-Grishams in this economy!Please patronize your local independent bookstore. And my goddess, if you're in Oakland on Sunday, please do show up to whistle and coo. Drinks after? Reading is ...
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• Halloween: As It Used to Be, Long Ago

  October 28, 2009

  • When I was seven or eight years old, we lived in a working class neighborhood of Rockville Centre, Long Island.  It was all blue collar, the place my mother wanted to emerge from, to rise out of.  But for me as kid it was largely paradise. Sure, there were scary moments.  They weren't Halloween-y.  They had more to do with the older neighborhood boys who abused small girls for sport.  We ...
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• My Favorite City is Not a City

  October 24, 2009

  • My favorite city is not a city, it's a tiny village with 900 inhabitants--more a large family than a  metropolis.  It's Auvillar, where I go to commune with the poplars and the Garonne River, to interact with my dear friends the villagers, who are so welcoming.  I go to eat well (the crepes, the olives, the prosciutto), where the wine makes me swoon.  The place is laced with poems--they are ...
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