Pamela S. Booker
Pamela S. Booker is an American poet, artist and playwright.
In 2009 she wrote the play Dust: Murmurs and a play, about the power of images. Marcy Borders and Sharbat Gula, the two individuals featured in the play, had iconic images of themselves very widely republished, without choosing to be well known. They had their lives transformed by images they did not choose to have captured or published.
In 2019 The Pavilion, a repertory theatre, in Brooklyn, played a series of movies, set in Brooklyn.[1][2] Their theatre's Marque had room for five lines of text - perfect for featuring haiku's relevant to the movie. Booker's haiku "Just Another Girl on the IRT" was featured on the Marque when the theatre showed the film of the same name.
Booker said of the haiku, that although she had been a long-term resident of Brooklyn she never considered herself a "fly girl".[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Poetry in the Wild: Interview with Saint Flashlight". Sacred Chickens. 2019-06-11. http://www.sacredchickens.com/sacred-chickens-blog/poetry-in-the-wild-interview-with-saint-flashlight. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Movie-Inspired Poems at Nitehawk Prospect Park". Nitehawk Cinema. 2018-01-29. https://nitehawkcinema.com/williamsburg/2018/01/29/marqueepoems/. Retrieved 2022-09-01. "A former longtime Brooklyn resident, though never a “fly girl”, Pamela Booker is an interdisciplinary writer and educator who now lives in North Jersey. She misses the 1990s, and dreams of providing IRT riders with compelling new reads with her Charlie Brown inspired essay forthcoming this fall and a novel that explores drag activism and a murder, soon to follow."
