Poems Below The Line

By Terry McCarty

"B-side" poems on topics including love, politics, TV news, cat care, gun control, religion and celebrity.
Terry McCarty has written poems in, around and sometimes about Southern California since 1997. His poems appear in the anthologies So Luminous The Wildflowers(Tebot Bach) and The Long Way Home: The Best of the Little Red Books Series 1998-2008 (Lummox Press).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Terry McCarty
• Release date: Sep 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301717682

Terry McCarty

Terry McCarty was born on July 31, 1959 in Electra, Texas. He moved to Southern California in 1988. From 1988 to 1997, he worked as a background actor and occasional stand-in for actors including Joe Pesci (THE PUBLIC EYE, LETHAL WEAPON 3, and JIMMY HOLLYWOOD) and Wallace Shawn (HOUSE ARREST). Terry began writing poetry in the summer of 1997. From 1998 to 1999, he was a member of the Midnight Special Bookstore poetry workshop in Santa Monica. He has been a featured poet in several Southern California venues. Terry has also featured at readings in Las Vegas, NV, San Francisco, CA, Santa Cruz, CA, Berkeley, CA and Seattle, WA. Terry has also appeared in Lynda and Lisa LaRose’s THE POETRY SPIRAL at Luna Sol Café (Los Angeles), Roni Walter’s BAKSTREEET COMETRI at the Comedy Store (West Hollywood), Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts (The Last Bookstore in Downtown Los Angeles) and the Austin International Poetry Festival (Austin, TX). Terry McCarty is the author of several chapbooks containing poems which blend humor with occasional social and/or political commentary: HOLLYWOOD POETRY, USE YOUR DELUSION, WICHITA FALLS and two volumes of GREATEST HITS. Recent chapbooks include IMPERFECTIONIST, [insert clever title here]and INTERLOPER. In addition, Terry’s poem “Icarus’ Itinerary can be found in Tebot Bach’s 2003 anthology of California poetry SO LUMINOUS THE WILDFLOWERS (for sale through Amazon.com). He also appears in the anthology THE LONG WAY HOME: THE BEST OF THE LITTLE RED BOOKS SERIES (Lummox Press)

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Poems Below the Line

Assorted B Sides 1997-2012

Terry McCarty

Copyright 1997-2012 Terry McCarty

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Dedicated to my wife Valarie.

Table of Contents:

Writer’s Block Explained—Version 3

Hostile Acres

I’m Afraid of Dennis Miller

The Pickup

Notes from Employee Below-the-Line

Metaphor

Learning How To Swim

This Is the News

Poem for DW

For Our Cat Sinead in Tustin Tonight

I Didn’t Find It

Folk Music As Wooly Mammoth

Found Poem