Fog (live)
April Ossmann reading Fog, recorded live at Messalonskee, High School, Oakland, Maine, December 5, 2006.
April Ossmann
The Point (live)
April Ossmann reading The Point, recorded live at Messalonskee, High School, Oakland, Maine, December 5, 2006.
Living Without (live)
April Ossmann reading Living Without, recorded live at Messalonskee, High School, Oakland, Maine, December 5, 2006.
April Ossmann live audience Q&A
April Ossmann answering audience questions, live at Messalonskee High School, Oakland, Maine, December 5, 2006.
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.
Stupid
Injuries are, mostly. There’s that moment, lucid and still as a Sunday in June, when you know– but do it anyway, like running in rain down steep trails whose paths are a jumble of roots and rocks– like grabbing the wire just now getting caught in the mower’s whirling blade. Later, nursing your cut, break […]
Dark Chocolate
She smells like herself again, all of me washed (I hope reluctantly) away. We embrace with a hint of the military, though who’s the soldier, I couldn’t say. Slow missile, I aim my car toward the dark reaches of another state, and begin to calculate my ETA, absently lick my too-dry lips– the last remnant […]
Living Without Memory
She’s riding home on the crowded subway, staring at the back of her hand where the familiar half-moon scar curves over a knuckle: She was washing a cup and it broke with her hand inside it. She studies her square palm, long fingers, beginning of a hangnail. She has a sudden sense of vertigo, and […]