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Platform of an Unacknowledged World Legislator
Poetry Chapbook. Winner of the 2005 Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest.
44 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 2005
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Fred Kirchner
1 book15 followersFred Kirchner won the 2005 Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest with his chapbook Platform of an Unacknowlegded World Legislator. He usually mispells 'unacknowlegded,' but may have gotten it right this time.
He also owns four bikes and had two poems in the anthology The Art of Bicycling: A Treasury of Verse, published by Breakaway Books. That's why he calls his new apartment the Bike and Poem Shop. That, and it's an old curbside storefront in the savage heart of downtown Dayton, Ohio--where Fred lives and works as a Teen Librarian.
Though, whenever he can, Fred goes to Springfield where he's acitve with Project Jericho, emceeing teen slam workshops and being poet-in-residence at the Springfield Museum of Art and the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center. Springfield is way cooler than you think.
His favorite place to ride is in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where there are more mountains than in Ohio. Just yesterday he rode up Lookout Mountain. It's 10 km to the top. Uphill. But it was cold, so he wussed and took the incline railway back down the mountain. You sweat going up; freeze going down. That's a law of riding in the mountains, but there may be a metaphor as well about the vicissitudes of success in life.
There are moments where he can't decide which to do: ride a bike or write a poem. Luckily, they're pretty much the same thing.
He also owns four bikes and had two poems in the anthology The Art of Bicycling: A Treasury of Verse, published by Breakaway Books. That's why he calls his new apartment the Bike and Poem Shop. That, and it's an old curbside storefront in the savage heart of downtown Dayton, Ohio--where Fred lives and works as a Teen Librarian.
Though, whenever he can, Fred goes to Springfield where he's acitve with Project Jericho, emceeing teen slam workshops and being poet-in-residence at the Springfield Museum of Art and the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center. Springfield is way cooler than you think.
His favorite place to ride is in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where there are more mountains than in Ohio. Just yesterday he rode up Lookout Mountain. It's 10 km to the top. Uphill. But it was cold, so he wussed and took the incline railway back down the mountain. You sweat going up; freeze going down. That's a law of riding in the mountains, but there may be a metaphor as well about the vicissitudes of success in life.
There are moments where he can't decide which to do: ride a bike or write a poem. Luckily, they're pretty much the same thing.
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June 19, 2012
A beautiful collection from a good friend and talented poet. I can't recommend this book enough.
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