05.10.12
News: Upcoming Work + Marguerite Avenue is Looking for Submissions!

Look for new work, appearing here soon! We have photography by Phoebe Lee, and an interview pending. Marguerite Avenue is looking for people to submit work -- we're open for poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art, photos, music, memoirs, and cartoons. Go to 'About' for information on how to get in contact with us.

11.09.11

Poetry: Robert Funge

At the Movies


If life were a movie
mine would start
near the end

a series of flashbacks
out of order
discordant as

a jigsaw puzzle
thrown open
on a glass table

a collage
of half blank
phantom shapes

each image
showing nothing
of the whole

it would end
before the end
leaving you

and I in the dark
the credits rolling
and all we’d hear is the music

                                                -- Previously published in Rattle

(To see another poem by Robert Funge, click here.)

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_Robert Funge was born and raised in San Francisco.  A dead arm and the curveball ended his dream of a baseball career. Robert is the author of three books of poetry: The Lie the Lamb Knows, Daughter, and The Passage. He now resides on the San Francisco peninsula, in San Carlos.

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04.11.12

Sketches: PEP Traveler

CM Evans, for Marguerite Avenue, met Pep Traveler -- who said his name is spelled "P -- E --- P", at a cafe in Laguna Beach, making these tiny little doodles, that are not doodles at all, if you look carefully -- click here for the full-sized gallery. Interview to follow.

04.11.12
Interview: PEP Traveler

CM Evans: I like your sketches. They look like doodles, but are they?

PEP Traveler: No, these are definitely not doodles. Doodles are random.

CM: Then what are these?

PEP: More like visual musical riffs. Little lines singing.

CM: Do you like Paul Klee?

PEP: My work is the extension of an imaginative world that precedes Paul Klee.

CM: How so?

PEP: My work is less refined, rougher, closer to the source.

CM: Have you been doing this long?

PEP: For many years, all the time.

(For the rest of this interview, click here)

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PEP Traveler has no home, and goes where he pleases, like the swallows of San Juan Cap.

11.11.11

Photos: November in New York, NY

(For a larger slideshow, click here.)
Marguerite Avenue spent a few days in New York in early November, staying near Union Square Park, in Lower Manhattan, invited by apexart. Have you ever had the pleasure of visiting New York City in November, when the leaves are just turning red, golden and crisp? Well, you should.
   -- MA
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