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Live Poets Society : a reading by Glenn Watt, Bill Graeser, Rustin Larson, and Suzanne Vesely

Conestoga Zen Number 3

Conestoga Zen, Volume 3: Chapbooks by William Kemmett, Michael Carrino, and Rustin Larson. Editor for Volume 3: Rustin Larson. CONESTOGA ZEN REACHES OUT TO THE WORLD AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE SPIRIT OF GOOD. The Conestoga wagon is a specific design of heavy covered wagon that was used extensively during the late eighteenth century, and the nineteenth century, in the eastern United States and Canada. It was large enough to transport loads up to 6 tons (5.4 metric tons), and was drawn by horses, mules, or oxen. The term Zen is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word (chán), an abbreviation of (chánnà), which is a Chinese transliteration of the Sanskrit word of dhyana (“meditation”). Zen emphasizes rigorous self-restraint, meditation practice, and insight into the nature of mind.

Maybe Yes, Maybe No — Verse Daily

http://www.versedaily.org/2024/maybeyesmaybeno.shtml

Flabbergast Malarkey

Settled into my easy chair the morning to read Flabbergast Malarkey. What fun! You should be our poet laureate. Loved all the poems, especially Puppet Show and Free Time and phrases like “the gods applauded with beams of sunlight.” Loved all the bananas, the jumping beans, the grass dragons and remembering taking you the the barbershop where you read comics and got a sucker. You’re poems are like taking a vacation backwards with all of that magnetic something that pulls you toward love. You write superior poetry from the forest of sublime memories, and you are very funny. A cannonball hits a water tower and lands on a gas furnace where a young Dorothy snuggles into the warmth smoking her cigs, and laughing loudly and hoarsely with pride and delight. Fantastic! You are all ! –Nort

The New Yorker January 13, 2014

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/13

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Two Poems for Oddball’s Horrorthon

Mr. Larson:

Thank you for submitting to Oddball Magazine! We would like to publish “Dirty Living” and “Osteopath” as part of the Horrorthon today on October 26 at 1:00 PM ET.

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Six Poems

https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2023/09/six-poems-by-rustin-larson.html

Three Poems

by Rustin Larson