Black Box Ink of Asbury Park
02/08/2010
Black Box Ink of Asbury Park, NJ is a comfortable, supportive environment created specifically with the writer in mind. The Studio is open to all theatre artists who would like to collaborate in a creative atmosphere to develop a play, screenplay, short story, memoir, etc. and who wish to hear their words read by members of the Studio. The writers themselves can read their own work if they choose.
Black Box Ink, also fosters creative and focused writing session at the second part of the evening. Black Box Ink is an opportunity to develop new work, fine-tune existing work and provide a creative and nurturing home for the aspiring writer.
THE GHOST OF STEPHAN CRANE IN THREE SOUNDS
Spooky, distant world, maybe my own
boyhood, maybe inside a demented man's mind, maybe
a flower's thoughts, or maybe the remains of a dog
I owned when I was five years old.
No sound, silence, aha! There it is,
here it is, water, hollow, shells over my ears,
Grandma Genevieve in Bayonne blessing me,
or maybe the horror of an MRI, now voices
saying maybe shouldn't be writing, maybe
my ears are dead.
Jet and birds on the bottom of the world,
Crane's disembodied imagination, as
if he broke through silent space,
no voice, no body, here to say,
"Why are you people scribbling in
my dining room? Why aren't you
having a feast with wine and rum?
Rich Quatrone