You know what I wanted to know more about when I saw this article: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off star Mia Sara is unrecognizable after ditching Hollywood for poetry… see her now.
Not the history of her acting career, which topped out in Legend and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (covered extensively in the article) nor her recent return to filmmaking. Nor, even, what she looks like now (she is not unrecognizable, just older than she was in 1987).
No, I wanted to learn more about her poetry. Which the article does not go into.
So I did an Internet search and found her Web site which looks like it has not been updated in nine years and its list of publications.
Wow, 24 poems between 2009 and 2016, but….
Most of them are online journals, and most of them here only a decade later are not available and return errors as the literary journals have folded. A few might have changed technologies which bury the poems, if the old work is available at all.
Ah, gentle reader, as you might know, I placed a couple poems this summer in the last ‘issue’ of the Green Hills Literary Lantern which will not publish again. If its faculty sponsors move on or retire, will Truman State University keep it up? Unlikely. So ten years from now, you won’t be able to find those poems on the Internet any more either.
Ah, the “online journal” has really upped the ephemerality of a poet’s immortality compared to print copies, where a poet could think his or her work was still out there and where crazy poetry readers like me could pick up bundles of chapbooks and old literary magazines and work through them to keep the poet’s work alive for just a little longer.
It doesn’t look like Mia Sara has a collection or chapbook out, and more’s the pity; a couple of poems that I could find like this and this are not bad.
