http://www.scribd.com/people/view/361347-larry-winfield This a feed for documents on Scribd written by merlot56 30 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:41:21 GMT Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:41:21 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2347042/12-3 time to confess. time for truth. time to face the doppelganger; the portrait of the writer who doesn't write. more ambition, less envy, more sweat, less working slob mise en scene... time to stop hiding in the mishigoss of a normal life, time to slay the fat dragon that sits on my chest pins me to the chair and whispers in my ear: "give me next week's poem, give me a book chapter, a character twist and I'll give you hours of bullshit fantasy and corporate dogma, gossip and hyperreality, keep changing channels you can tap that brainstorm tomorrow..." time for truth, time to let go of the truth Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:41:21 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2347042/12-3 http://www.scribd.com/doc/2300875/Wicker-Park-Sonata Wicker Park Sonata Larry Winfield was born in Marianna, Ark. In 1956. He studied art and theater in high school and college and has worked as an illustrator, actor, singer, computer operator, bike messenger, construction worker, information researcher and teacher. He began writing in the early 80s and attended his first poetry reading in 1990. Over the next twelve years he hosted open mics and appeared as a featured artist at a number of Chicago poetry venues and festivals, produced short films, traveled to Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on poetry excursions, Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:14:01 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2300875/Wicker-Park-Sonata http://www.scribd.com/doc/2290533/Rosedust-ebook Rosedust Larry Winfield 12.23 Press *©1999, 2002, 2004 Larry Winfield. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without written permission from the author. Third Printing These publications have graciously given my poems and prose space within their pages: Strong Coffee (“Rosedust”; “Johnson. Grass”) SceneZine (“Buddha with Sax”) Telepoetics in Print (“when 'isms' collide”) Indelible Ink (“Miles Away”) Stray Bullets, A Celebration of Chicago Saloon Poetry (“Lake Effect”) Published by 12.23 Press www.larrywinfield.com lwin@larrywinf Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:01:30 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2290533/Rosedust-ebook http://www.scribd.com/doc/2286990/Irish-Black Irish Black now is the time for reels and fancy steps, to make merry, make melancholy; pushing back the shortest month out of ken, away with its tribal clatterings and dark revelry in favor of pipes and strings and scattered lilting words of a 'proper' ancient tongue rarely uttered. now's the time to tap the fiddler, to lean back into the raft of misty melodies that evokes the heavy-footed heath ye starved on, where the British practiced slavery first before moving the enterprise south; evokes the teeming stinking cities ye crowded into, where 'Catholic' was a fighting word (and so be it), but Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:02:29 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2286990/Irish-Black