Author Archives: Adam Penna

From Small Fires, Little Flames: A Reading

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Adam Penna

Here’s some video from Friday’s reading at BJ Spoke Gallery in Huntington*. Thanks to the gallery, those who came to listen and, especially, Kelly Powell, for hosting the event. If you missed me here, you can find me featuring at … Continue reading →

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On Talk of Happiness

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Adam Penna

Soon, very soon, the follow-up to Little Songs & Lyrics to Genji will be released by S4N Books.  A lot has happened since I started writing these little songs almost ten years ago, when the aim, like I understand the aim … Continue reading →

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Reading Friday, November 10th

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Adam Penna

I’ll be reading this coming Friday, November 10th at 7 PM at the BJ Spoke Gallery, 299 Main Street, Huntington, NY 11743.  I’ll have plenty of copies of Small Fires, Little Flames for sale, and I’ll sign them.  If you … Continue reading →

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Small Fires, Little Flames Is Available!

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Adam Penna

Small Fires, Little Flames is available.  If you’ve ordered or pre-ordered a copy, it should ship to you soon.  If you haven’t ordered a copy, please, please, do so now.  You won’t regret it.  If the poems inside don’t move … Continue reading →

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Names I Almost Recognize: Montreal, Plateau Mont Royal

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Adam Penna

One of the errors espoused by contemporary Americans includes the idea that age is just a number, as if time were a psychological, even a spiritual, rather than a physical reality.  But our bodies do age, and time is in … Continue reading →

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From a Discarded Post II

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Adam Penna

“So what is the divine?  First, it is in us and not outside of us.  All searching for the divine out there leads to dead ends, unless that searching corresponds to some inner searching.  There are many, many scapes and … Continue reading →

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From a Discarded Post

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Adam Penna

“A poet’s first preoccupation has to be with love.  Where ordinary men and women–I don’t mean ordinary in any pejorative sense, but rather in its Latin sense–can afford to submit their lives to chance and do, mostly, fairly well as … Continue reading →

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This Is Just a Place

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Adam Penna

for Steve, in memoriam After you divorced, ten years passed before We saw each other and, By that time, ruin found me too I can’t begin to tell the story It doesn’t matter now.  Let it suffice That we were … Continue reading →

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Commonplaces & Other Miracles

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Adam Penna

Periodically, I revise the direction of this blog.  Given my point of view about revision, and what its aims and objects are, this is a good thing.  And given the magnitude of the changes I’ve experienced in my life these … Continue reading →

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Presales for Small Fires, Little Flames Coming to an End

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Adam Penna

June 16th marks Bloomsday AND the end of Presales for Small Fires, Little Flames.  Coincidence?  I think not… Please, if you’ve considered purchasing a copy of the book, now’s the time to follow through.  Click here, and on August 11th, when … Continue reading →

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