I wouldn’t write at
all if it weren’t for myriad writers before me whose works showed me what was
possible. The poems of this series are small offerings of respect, of thanks,
to those muses. – Brian Beatty
Larry Levis
New Harmony, Indiana,
1995.
Our afternoon game of pool lasted
well into the night of the student poetry reading
we agreed would be better off without us.
The bar jukebox blared the Allman Brothers’
“In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” on repeat as if to bring
her
or this failed utopia for three-two beer back to life.
Low-point townies followed me into
that toilet’s toilet to share their idea of an elegy.
Until you appeared at the men’s room door to give me my cue.
– Brian Beatty
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I met Larry Levis at a writers' conference, though I wasn't in his poetry workshop. We played pool and fended off disgruntled townies rather than talk writing. There may have been the aforementioned beer involved.
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