Rebecca Black Q&A talks about the formal strategy of her poem, Cottonlandia
Rebecca Black, author of Cottonlandia, talks about the formal strategy of her poem, Cottonlandia.
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Paravaledellentine: A Paradelle
For Glen Come to me with your warning sounds of the tender seas. Come to me with your warning sounds of the tender seas. Move me the way the seas’ warm sea will spend me. Move me the way the seas’ warm sea will; spend me. Move your sea-warm come to me; will […]
Final Autumn
Maple leaves turn black in the courtyard. Light drives lower and one bluejay crams our cold memories out past the sun, each time your traces come past the shadows and visit under my looking-glass fingers that lift and block out the sun. Come—I’ll trace you one final autumn, and you can trace your […]
Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant
With my dark eyes open, I search into the dark for a reassurance to soothe me like a look. No beam will sink or angle, no slow new mineral drip through the circling ceiling, no change of quiet drop. A womb will throw me outward (unbreakably deep kiss), inhospitable, solid, into no circumference, […]
Butterfly Lullaby
My wild indigo dusky wing my mottled, broad-wing skipper, a sleepy, dreamy dusty wing, flying through my night. My northern, southern, cloudy wing, my spring azure, my crescent pearl, a silver-spotted, sweet question mark, sleeping in my sky. A tiger swallowtail, harvester, moving through my hours, an eyed brown in the redwing dark, […]
The Coming Mirrors
My body thickens in a stem climbing aloud to keep you here. My belly thickens like a stem, my belly is tethered by your days. Come in, come in, my strong darling. I’m still a pane of airy glass. My breasts go heavy to meet you here. My body turns […]
Submission Guidelines
for participating poets: Record and submit at least three poems (and as many as 10) on the Olympus DS-2 recorder we sent you. Poems may be any length (the recorder is capable of saving hours’ worth of material) Fill out, in complete, the Bio Info form from the link below, and submit it along with […]
Recording Instructions
Digital Recorder: We will mail you (USPS Priority) a digital voice recorder. Once you have recorded your poems, you simply slip the recorder in the postage paid return mailer and mail it back to us. NOTE: New postal regulations require that you hand the package to a postal employee, and not simply drop it in […]