Marilyn Kallet's Blog

• Huntington Sharp and Jennifer Gibbons Rock!

  November 8, 2009

  • So there I was in Oakland ready to give a poetry performance--but who did I know in Oakland?  Who would show up?  Well, my freshman English advisor and Tufts professor Martin Friedman, his wife, daughters and grandchildren showed up, and Joyce Jenkins and crew showed up from Poetry Flash.   And Susan Cohen's family and friends--and and and Huntington Sharp of Red Room fame turned up looking ...
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• 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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