Julie Gard Q&A on hearing and reading a poem
Julie Gard talks about experiencing a poem differently hearing it and reading it.
Julie Gard
Julie Gard Q&A on a poem she wishes she’d written
Julie Gard talks about a poem she wishes she'd written, "12 O'clock News" by Elizabeth Bishop.
Julie Gard
Julie Gard’s prose poetry collection Home Studies was winner of the 2013 Many Voices Project at New Rivers Press and is forthcoming in 2015. Previous publications include two chapbooks, Obscura: The Daguerreotype Series (Finishing Line Press) and Russia in 17 Objects (Tiger’s Eye Press), along with work in a number of journals and anthologies. Julie […]
Telephone Wire
I stood in Akhmatova’s kitchen. Clothes hung drying and made the room damp, said the brochure. People wandered through like in any communal apartment and whispered into the phone. She walked among them in genteel slippers, halfway to the afterlife. There is nothing to say that Blok has not said, Mandelstam, Brodsky, Altman, Modigliani. […]
Eco-static
I left you in the lake of my last memory. Your shoreline skimmed the top of my mind and your breeze pixilated my world view into trees the size and texture of thimbles, mountains lost and upside down, like a slide of my father on a 1950’s camping trip. We never climbed the mountain, just […]
Bairnwort
The ideal childhood I almost had was replete with sighing daisies. What softer blossom opened in 1974? Mothers everywhere adorned themselves with bellis perennis, smelled like them, wore them in their hair and underwear, and the sidewalks were strewn with delicate, common white petals. Soft yellow discs pressed against the noses of hopeful children as […]