
Carpenter Poets
Reader Jason Gordon wrote to tell me about the Carpenter Poets: On a Thursday night back in 2004 one of the men came into James’s Gate Pub with some poems from a book called “Hammer” by poet and carpenter Mark Turpin. Inspired by what they read, this group of Jamaica Plain carpenters challenged themselves to each write a poem: a poem about their work, a poem about carpentry. Thank god for the Intertunnel; if it wasn’t for this intellectual periscope I have going here, I’d never know about nuthin’. That’s about a 50 minute drive from here, and I’d never
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