Caught inside his smile The way in was welcoming A smooth and easy glide Sewn into his cloth Each thread tight Hot spot warnings A trail of suspicion But I don’t listen I’m caught inside his smile Hooked into his song Brooding black eyes mourn A runner up In a maze Of second hand thoughts …
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Jigsaw puzzles, nothing more– pieces spread out on the table or floor, needing attention, border pieces are easiest to find, to align borders, boundaries, a bit of sky, a few clouds – the tabs, loops, levels, interlocking patterns, doorways, then blurry faces, a flight of stairs going to the edge, off into nothing, nowhere, in…
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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…
Lisa Hase-Jackson’s Insomnia in Another Town was published this spring by Clemson University Press as winner of the Converse MFA alumni Prize for Poetry. Claire Bateman, the contest judge, writes in part about Lisa’s “significant courage with grace notes of buoyancy.” Lisa’s poems navigate, among other things, mother and daughter relationships (speakers as mothers and speakers as daughters.)…
Not even the dream hand Unknots you. I stretched it out Never to placate you but Take the wanton aback. In your blind state… blind Of a different kind I fingered nose, eyes, mouth And the ear’s sounding tribunal. Your heart I felt. I wanted Its telling above others. The roar it gave forth –…
