Treasure Shields Redmond will be one of three featured readers at •chance operations• at
Duff's, 392 N. Euclid, on Monday, March 25.
Daniel Eberle-Mayse and Jennifer Goldring will also be featured.
Doors at 7:30 p.m.; admission $3.00.
Musical guest will be improvisational musician Jazz Resin.
Advance sign-up for the open-mic following the featured readers is encouraged. Click
here to sign-up via e-mail.
A Mississippi native,
Treasure Shields Redmond is a St. Louis-based poet, performer and educator. She has published poetry in such notable anthologies as
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam,
Breaking Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cane Canem’s First Decade and in journals that include
Sou'wester and
African American Review. She has received a fellowship to the FineArts Works Center, and her poem, "around the time of medgar" was nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize.
Treasure is a Cave Canem fellow and has received an MFA from the University of Memphis. Presently, she divides her time between being an assistant professor of English at Southwestern Illinois College and doctoral studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
caveat
the celluloid vision of jackie o
reflexively reaching for kennedy's brains;
too fast for even her
aristocratic hands.
did she think
she could put it all back together?
her archival papers
(now cool to the touch)
reveal she knew of his philandering --
her mother counseled her to stay .
so maybe that reflexive jump
on the back of a motorcade
was not as mothers flinch,
watching deathless sons
in football games.
but more as a runner,
anticipating the crisp gun shot.
-- Treasure Shields Redmond
