another reading

 

Poet Paul Piper

organized this reading

happening next week. 

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In case you missed this reading

this is what I said:

“This winter I was minding my own business 

putting together my next book of poetry, 

when I got shanghaied by a dead poet.

I didn’t know anything about Robert Huff at first.

I put aside my manuscript and became a detective.

There’s very little information on Robert Huff.

He taught poetry here at Western for 25 years 

from 1964-1990 and there are a lot of people 

who knew him. I spoke with friends of his

students, poets and artists and eventually I wrote 

a 40 page essay about Huff’s life here in Bellingham.

The irony is, although Huff found someone 

who could pick up on his psychic call to be 

remembered and written about, I have terrible luck 

getting my stories published in magazines.However, 

my essay on him can be seen in Special Collections.”

And this is what I read:

Robert Huff, “Rainbow”

My poems, “Bird Taxi” and “The Packard Hatchery”

Knute Skinner, “The Little Boat”

Robert Huff, “Morning”