Days: 2004-2012

[from Diane Wakoski 's Toward a New Poetry , Michigan , 1980] what I would like to do is be as real in my writing as I am in life, ...

[from Lynda Hull 's The Collected Poems ,   Graywolf , 2006] Hollywood Jazz Who says it’s cool says wrong.     For it rises fro...

[from Aracelis Girmay 's Kingdom Animalia ,   BOA , 2011] & When We Woke It rained all night. It did not rain. I...

[from Cate Marvin 's Fragment of the Head of a Queen , Sarabande , 2007] Landscape with Hungry Girls There’s blood here. The skyline...

[from Marianne Moore 's The Poems of Marianne Moore , ed. Grace Schulman , Viking , 2003] A Grave Man looking into the sea, taking ...

[from Ann Townsend 's Dime Store Erotics , Silver Fish Review , 1998] Trimmings Restless, pulled outside by fog and fitful r...

[from Noelle Kocot 's Sunny Wednesday , Wave , 2009] The Poem of Force after Simone Weil 's Essay on The Iliad How often have I l...

[from Javier Marías 's A Heart So White , tr. Margaret Jull Costa , New Directions , 1992] Real togetherness in married couples and in...

[from Steve Shavel 's How Small Brides Survive in Extreme Cold , Verse Press , 2003] How Small Brides Survive in Extreme Cold [excerp...

[from Daniel Nathan Terry 's Waxwings , Lethe , 2012] Photograph, 1984 Swallow this house — bedroom window paned like a roadside c...

[from Evie Shockley 's The New Black ,   Wesleyan , 2011] dear ace bandage,        the wound is hard to place. the wound is not you...

Julie Carr ’s Sarah — of Fragments and Lines , Coffee House , 2012] Conception Abstracts                             Heat teems from th...

[from Arecelis Girmay 's Kingdom Animalia ,   BOA , 2011] Small Letter do not go, this day, the red of bridges, my little, sta...

[from Robert Duncan 's The H. D. Book ,   California , 2012] Threads are spun out and are woven, from event into event. Hands work t...