Emily Vizzo Q&A on her poem ‘Theodore Roosevelt never returned’
Emily Vizzo talks about the genesis of her poem “Theodore Roosevelt never returned to Panama; he never saw the Panama Canal.”
Emily Vizzo
Emily Vizzo Q&A on the pleasure and pain of writing
Emily Vizzo talks about what she finds to be the most pleasurable and the most painful aspects of writing.
Emily Vizzo Q&A on a current project
Emily Vizzo talks about a current poetry project that she’s working on.
Emily Vizzo Q&A on her writing time
Emily Vizzo Q&A talks about her special writing time and rituals.
Illustrate Half This, An Upset
Fishing makes a cold verb, starts with air & winds up Underwater. What dazzles the fish – feathers, bright eggs— Herring leaping into nets. It’s royal, right? Soldiers hammering ships. Fishnets on a pinned-up lobster. If we go back a thousand years, More fish. Kings & in-laws. Brisk & salacious gemmy […]
Impendium
You have said you lost an earring. An abalone teardrop, unnaturally heavy in the palm. What I know of loss begins w/loss. Within a quiet shop, a piano-scale of sorrow. Gloss of keys. I chose one song from many using index fingers. Never love a sister. It lasts too long. My grandmother on […]
The Delicacy of Kidney Beans
Wild is the garnish my organs seek You know you undid my black bathing suit On a blanket at the same courthouse where you played tag With a judge in the sunken gardens. You kissed a mapmaker His hands filled with lemons. Bees can catch a disease Which makes them seek the light, […]
The Gentle Country
In America my body goes a little white tractor Bitten beet red, hummocked. I love myself best when I’m on the run. The dream of wintertime pinking My earlobes, pulling them to pomegranate ducts. Monk lions pasted to coral slabs. Sugar burning. All the coffee I can drink. Baskets of wild mushroom Caps, ink bottomed, […]