Featured Poem: On My Eventual Death

This week's featured poem is brought to us by our partnership with the IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel, which will be contributing their entire 1600 poem archive of the show's run to P4 in January.

Through the four parts of this poem Rick explores the concept of death and mortality in a global sense (the first part), loss and the willingness to let go of the things we love (the second part), the desire to not go into the void alone (the third part), and finding peace in the way life goes on through the children.  It’s a wonderful little journey of a poem, and one that is made all the more satisfying through the description of the voiceless presence of Addie, who seems to become a projection of us, as the listener, somewhat unwillingly dealing with the life and death questions the poet is raising.    It’s a short little piece, but one that is immensely satisfying.

Rick Lupert

Rick Lupert has been involved with L.A. poetry since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2014 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Distinguished Service Award and was a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets for 2 years. He created the Poetry Super Highway ( http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ ) and hosted the weekly Cobalt Cafe reading for almost 21 years. He’s authored 17 collections of poetry, including “Making Love to the 50 Foot Woman” (Rothco Press, May 2015), “The Gettysburg Undress” and “Nothing in New England is New”, and edited the anthologies “Ekphrastia Gone Wild”, “A Poet’s Haggadah” and the noir anthology “The Night Goes on All Night. He also writes and draws (with Brendan Constantine) the daily web comic “Cat and Banana.” ( http://www.facebook.com/catandbanana ) He is regularly featured at venues throughout Southern California.

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