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About Me

Marguerite Maria Rivas has been writing poetry for fifteen years. In addition to writing for the page, she writes for, and improvises on the stage. Marguerite is a member of the Performance Collective, Elektromotif along with Wil Wynn, Doug Principato, and frequent guests, Peter Echanique, Andre Martinez, and Ed Jackson, among other world-class musicians and classy wordsmiths. She is also a founding member of Sepoy Rebellion, the poets' collective.With instrumentalist and composer Doug Principato (a/k/a) the Grandpepper of Reality, percussionist AndrJ Martinez, and poet Wil Wynn, she works as an improvisational poet, having recently performed at such venues as Performance Space 122, The Henry Gregg Gallery, The Unitarian Church, and The Bowery Poetry Club.Marguerite has also performed nationally and has won numerous grants and awards for her poetry.Marguerite's poetry and prose has been published in such journals as Earth's Daughters, The America's Review, Waterways, and The Multicultural Review, among others. She is widely known as the de facto Poet Laureate of Staten Island, and has recently completed a manuscript of lyric poetry, Laughter, Hope & a Sock in the Eye.Marguerite, who holds a Doctor of Arts and Letters from Drew University, also writes long, collagistic poems. She is crossing her fingers and throwing salt over her shoulder awaiting word on the publication of her book-length poem, For the Yous of Sarah Whitman. In addition to the finger-crossing and salt-throwing, she performs a weird ritual having to do with praying to a long-gone holy man whose body was shipped to France and mislabeled. She won't reveal everything about this peculiar ritual, but it has something to do with praying and eating pound cake.Marguerite is indebted to her loyal friends and supporters, especially her long-time friend and fellow poet Wil Wynn, her archivist, Bernard King, and her collaborator on the spoken word tracks on this page, instrumentalist Doug Principato.Marguerite doesn't usually refer to herself in the third person, but well, you know, it's an artist's bio, and it's sometimes hard to peek out from behind the tall phragmites, step out into the sun, and imitate her beloved Staten Island oysters by doing a little broadcast spawning. Out with you then, poems and sound files; the sun warms her face now.Hereâ€™s a URL to an upcoming series of events: http://www.freesummerfest.org/Literary_Artists.html

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/11/2006
Band Website: elektromotif.org
Band Members:..
Influences: "If there were more Nancy Drews like you, we might not have had a 9/11. Don't worry, lady. Go get some sleep." And this too, really happened.
Sounds Like: Sometimes a nightingale on speed; sometimes a dove cooing; sometimes a red-winged blackbird flying through the understory in the Eastern Woodlands in spring; sometimes just me.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Re-post Solstice Poem : June Song

June Song at Allison Pond Park, Summer Solstice 1998No more shall I splay myself,the old equationself = sacrificeor ride the wind like cindersdissolving.Shall I fold myself intowhat springs from the ...
Posted by marguerite maria on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:14:00 PST

Dirge: Maria, My First Born

Dirge for My Firstborn: Blue Heron ParkWhere are you my child?When I peer in at the two,sleeping warm and safepink, blonde and curl,I see three;you are shade between them.In heartbreak autumnwhen I sh...
Posted by marguerite maria on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:14:00 PST

Courage to be Lonely

Coming home tonight after a twelve-hour day at work, I put my mp3 player on shuffle. Have you ever done this and wonder why certain songs play at particular times? I have a library that I rarely take...
Posted by marguerite maria on Sat, 24 May 2008 12:59:00 PST

Where are You?

Waitingbeneath the great green Helsinki clock?Murmuringinto the breeze off Lake Atitlan, "mi corazon"?Callingin a glowworm cave a name you do not yet know?Searchingin the Frisco fog for a silhouette, ...
Posted by marguerite maria on Fri, 02 May 2008 11:59:00 PST

I WILL:

I WillThrow open the sarcophagus of heartbreakEvade the cryptic jellyfishSwim in a stellar seaDrink June nectar of honeysuckle once moreChannel an ancient bard in a smoky nightclub in BonnEmbrace, wit...
Posted by marguerite maria on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:43:00 PST

New Poem: Best Revenge

The Best RevengeShe wantsa backless dressshocking-crimson cravingcreeping across his placid faceat last. Marguerite Maria Rivas©2008 from Laughter, Hope & a Sock in the Eye ms in progress....
Posted by marguerite maria on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:20:00 PST

Approximating

Approximating AngelsPoets have for centuries heardchanting, singing, elusive ringing,and the celestial clatter of fragile spheres.Metamorphosis of reality into inner light,the changing of bones into f...
Posted by marguerite maria on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:47:00 PST

Esperanza (Poem)

Esperanza In newly-tasted wild night, we drowse beneath a milk-plashed sky, spangled and black. We are eternal desert forms: staghorn cholla, spiked red, and juniper writhing mid-dance,...
Posted by marguerite maria on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:31:00 PST

New Years Gift -Haiku

Seventeen Syllables You Never Want to Hear From Your Husband Went to the doctoron Friday and I owe you an apology.©2007 Marguerite Maria Rivas from Laughter, Hope & a Sock in the Eye (MS in progr...
Posted by marguerite maria on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:49:00 PST

December Remember Poem

Our last joyous snowpowdered our full-blown red rose:confection, Sugar.Marguerite Maria Rivas©2007 From Laughter, Hope & a Sock in the Eye (MS in progress)
Posted by marguerite maria on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:29:00 PST