Good enough to eat
at the National Gallery
Go to Source
Author: The Best American Poetry
Good enough to eat
at the National Gallery
Go to Source
Author: The Best American Poetry
Other paths Would not have led Me here Some more attractive then Than they appear now Except for the bumps and bruises Hardship and sacrifice I would be at another place I did not follow My tribe in the mines The bleakness Of that fate The source Of my father’s admonition The coal seam Claiming…
How many bombs dropped from all of the war props poisonous and poised to hiss with a snake’s tongue venom on the fang drips needlepoint precision Shock and Awe proclamation A river of fire in a ring around the city Mercury enters the blood a kill shot to the mind Alzheimer’s and a loss of…
Next week—on July 25th—Penguin will release Terrance Hayes’s Watch Your Language. The book is series of fantastic essays about the last century of American poetry. Including graphs, artwork, multiple choice quizzes, tarot cards, a boardgame, Hayes’s own poems for context, and biography framed by epistolatory gestures, Watch Your Language is a hybrid wonder. From personal…
This moment is the one where we know there is a connection point, a constellation of experience. One must simply connect the dots, appreciating the nuances of shade. No one can be put on pillars anymore, the truth always comes out, the messiah figure with the drug problem. Today’s crime is an expression of yesterday’s…
Last week, my sister Amy and I visited the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ. It is a magical place, founded by Seward Johnson on 42 landscaped acres dotted with sculptures that give new meaning to the phrase “Larger than Life.” As we strolled the grounds, we came upon the sculpture pictured below. Grace Paley’s “Midrash…
Stationed off the grid Population under 50 CIA comrades Hookers wearing a wire Granola with Wild Turkey 101 Booting heroin speedballs A life we chose Exile from normal No filter Penguin Bar after dark No cover Jukebox takes coins only Black night No stars The color of salvation BBQ with the enemy tonight Tomorrow is…