These haiku narrate the story of Marfusha, first rabbit into space. In July of 1959, she participated in a high-altitude, suborbital Soviet test flight. Along with two canine companions, she successfully returned to Earth, where she lived out the rest of her days. A Rumanian postage stamp was subsequently issued in her honor.
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Written and read by John Talley-Jones of the Los Angeles punk band Urinals.
Urban poet Yvonne Estrada reads four poems featuring topics ripped from the bloody streets of Los Angeles.
You can read more of Estrada’s work in Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies and Catena, or find her on MySpace. Estrada is a well-established guerrilla reader – she’s read poetry from the top of a downtown L.A. building, and once was part of a group that put poetry disguised as schedules on public transit.
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Crystal Allene Cook reads from her novel, Bombardirovka.
Cook has been published in such journals as Shenandoah and the Southeast Review. This guerrilla reading was recorded live in Little Armenia in Los Angeles.
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