We are honored that Silver Birch Press Bukowski Anthology contributing editor Eddie Woods read poetry by win harms and Mark Terrill from the Silver Birch Press Bukowski Anthology at Bar Bukowski (barbukowski.nl) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on January 20, 2014. Woods also read from his memoir Tennessee Williams in Bangkok (Inkblot Publications, 2013). Along with Eddie Woods, the literary event featured poets Sabina Lukovic, Aaron Mick, Pim Oudheusden, bart plantenga, Max Urai, Jibbe Willems, and — in her poetry performance debut — Hannah Woods.
Here’s one of the poems featured during the reading…
FEELING LIKE BUKOWSKI
by win harms
feeling like bukowski
here i am a lone lunatic
looking over the street
and evoking the men
i’ve known biblically
they were cads and
i put them out like
cigarettes in the ashtray
i am playing my music too
loud, the phone refuses to
ring, i think about
opening a beer but don’t
realizing it’s ten am
i light candles for
my salvation
and listen to the
wind through the trees
what a sad song they play
today i want to fly away
and forget where I was
last night
“Feeling Like Bukowski” by win harms – plus poetry, prose, and art by over 70 contributors — appears in the Silver Birch Press Bukowski Anthology (August 2013), available at Amazon.com.
Photo of Eddie Woods by Bas Geerdink, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.