April Ossmann live audience Q&A
April Ossmann answering audience questions, live at Messalonskee High School, Oakland, Maine, December 5, 2006.
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April Ossmann Q&A how to listen to poetry
April Ossmann talks to students about how to listen to poetry, recorded live at Messalonskee High School, Oakland, Maine, December 5, 2006.
Fountain
I think first of thirst,— not the lighted sprays sprinkling domes of mist over the small pond in my gated community, but of skin— of black and white photographs, public drinking fountains labeled colored whites— of what my mother could quench in her time and what she could not touch. And of the phone […]
Poem for Amadou Diallo
history has taught us much about fame and its inevitable tomorrow. —Lucille Clifton This is your fifteen minutes of fame. So violently sudden, it caught […]
Garden
I too have turned to the yard turning the yard into frustration of flowers I have felt for a knot in the soil coaxing pulling at bindweed roots pulling gently so they give half inch by half inch the vines wound silently violent round the necks of black […]
Dinah
And Dinah the daughter of Leah which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.—Genesis 34:1 I grew up watching them cut their eyes, grit their teeth at each other. My aunt entering a […]
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon Q&A on her current project
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, author of Black Swan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), talks about her current poetry project.