Wednesday, April 24, 2024: Kelley J. White's "Good Night, Ashbury Park"
Pediatrician Kelley White has worked in inner-city Philadelphia and rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Rattle, and JAMA . Her most recent chapbook is A Field Guide to Northern Tattoos (Main Street Rag Press.) She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant and is currently Poet in Residence at Drexel University College of Medicine. Her newest collection, No.Hope Street has just been published by Kelsay Books. “Good night, Asbury Park, — Johnny Cash, July 28, 1990 I’ll see you at church tomorrow.” I don’t quite see how a hotel can nestle along the Jersey Shore but this one claims to— and who am I to doubt though this story I am recalling sounds doubtful—Johnny Cash investing 250,000 in a hotel in a failing town, Asbury Park? But there’s proof, a 1990 concert at the Paramount, with Ring of Fire, and June’s there too, and two of her sisters, and I Walk the Line and The Old Ragged Flag and, well the door just opened so I got no privacy but jus
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