Anne Marie Macari Q&A on difficult obstacles to being a poet
Anne Marie Macari, author of Ivory Cradle (APR, 2000) and Gloryland (Alice James Books, 2005), talks about how she became interested in poetry.
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Anne Marie Macari Q&A on the genesis of her poem Mary’s Blood
Anne Marie Macari, author of Ivory Cradle (APR, 2000) and Gloryland (Alice James Books, 2005), talks about the genesis of her poem Mary’s Blood.
Fallen Through the Atmosphere
Your particle receptors, green islands silhouetted in white, scleral seas, watch the world spin around a sun, through a universe, passed centuries of dust. Comets have crumbled, fallen through the atmosphere, cosmic and dry, cold from fumbling through space alone. What’s left behind, has landed in your bones, your hair, and you inhale deep into […]
Redundant Feeling of Guilt
Dripping over itself, dripping over itself. Slumped and slowed his body drips over itself like the moon melting into small drops of glue. His pores fill and over- fill with hours of thinking and rethinking each decision he’s made, each family dinner he can recall, even his laugh, regrettable laugh. All of it stuffed into […]
Tar the Roof
Dirt blood, tar blood, mud brain and eyes, trailer park skull, trailers parked on loose stones, exposed to the cold, to those who crawl under to hide from the police, to stay out of the cold, with their gold teeth and needles. Tar the roof in the summer, tar the aluminum to keep leaks away […]
Rodger LeGrand Q&A recommends two poets
Rodger LeGrand, author of Various Ways of Thinking about the Universe (Finishing Line Press, 2005), recommends two poets.
from A Monologue for Voices
The poetry festival has ended. The poetry festival ended today. Today is May 22, 2005. Sometimes today is Tuesday. -I am translating.- Tuesday is not the day the festival ended. The festival ended today. Today is Sunday. Sunday is a day of the week. The day that Sunday is is the day that today is […]
from St. Apples
The war is always there but we do not go there. *** The tools of war are always there and there are always the tools of war. The tools of war are used. War makes them useful. The tools of war and the war is between their eyes and my eyes and your eyes. The […]