Testaments
Below are some examples of the effects that Poem Store has had on various customers. From photographs to blog posts, Jacqueline appreciates any and every response.
Photos
Coagula Art Journal
When Zachary got us into Art Los Angeles Contemporary:
http://coagula.com/jacqueline-suskin-at-poem-store/
A Poetry Feed
This interesting article and recording was posted by Karsten Piper after Jacqueline responded to his resquest for a poem on a suede jacket:
http://apoetryfeed.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/suede-jacket-by-jacqueline-suskin/
Tri-City Weekly Article
A lovely interview in the Tri-City Weekly:
http://www.times-standard.com/tcw/ci_17258184
Pie and Poetry at Northtown Books
Saturday, April 24th Northtown Books hosted Pie & Poetry in honor of National Poetry month.
Poem Store was featured as the poetry side of the event and Jacqueline typed alongside an array of delicious homemade pies enjoyed by all.
Photo: Terrence McNally & the Arcata Eye
Pie and Poetry was also featured on Velma's World:
http://velmasworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/pie-poetry.html
Arcata Eye Front Page
Take a look at the front page of the Arcata Eye. Sharon Letts wrote an excellent article on Poem Store for National Poetry Month:
Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac
Jacqueline met the fine folks of Boneshaker this summer and they were so excited about Poem Store they traded a poem for publication. Many thanks to them! You can take a look at the publication here:
Bob Humblogger
Jon Skulski
I bought a poem from the Poem Store at Pastels on the Plaza. The subject was "moving on". Best poem I ever bought, it is wonderful:
In the idea of onward motion
the key is to recall the constants:
the moon keeps changing, it returns
and rebirths, the season go in
wild waves, birds leave for warmth.
This is a call to the natrual
left and leaving and thus, a good
blessing for our saying yes to the end of one place and thexxxxxal
awakening of the next.
Jacqueline Suskin
October 3rd, 2009
xxxxx
cicadabrood@gmail.com
Thank you, Jacqueline. type and errors kept in to try to translate the charm of this thing
Leaving Humboldt will be difficult and it has made that known to me; beautiful sunny days; warmer friends, a swirling community. I am tied in it's tangles. It was my first adventure. It is a precious place I am leaving.
The poem struck me right where I'm most tender at the moment. It gave me strength and took it all back again. It's reminding me to hold the line, to grit my teeth, tear some muscle and bare it. It will be worth it, it will be wonderful, but it won't be easy.
The first waves up the spine...
Squirrel Attic
While wandering the wooded alleys of the Oregon Country Fair on the afternoon of July 11 2009, I came across a young lady with a typewriter. Her typewriter had, printed upon it, "POEM STORE your subject & price". I approached her and said, I'd like three dollars worth of squirrel in the attic". She said okay, sat down with a grim expression, and began to type. Ninety seconds later, she pulled this parchment from the typewriter and handed it to me, and I gave her three dollars and I put the poem in my pocket and walked away. I later found it in my pocket and posted it below, here on my squirrel-in-the-attic website:
Jacqueline Suskin, in her career as the Poem Store proprietor, purveyor of poems.
You can email Jackie at the above address, and she might write a poem for you, if you send her money. But don't ask her for advice about squirrels in the attic, that's not within her circle of competence. You'd be better off calling a real wildlife professional off of the wildlife removal directory instead of a writer of poems.