Suzanne Wise is the author of the poetry collection The Kingdom of the Subjunctive (Alice James Books, 2000). Her poetry has also appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: the Next Generationand Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, and in the journals Tikkun, Pierogi Press, Boston Review, Fence, and elsewhere. She has taught creative writing at Middlebury College in Vermont, and Pratt […]
Legislators say they want women to have second thoughts. —headline from The New York Times, January 28, 1998 I was very prolific in my generating qualities. I was sprouting here and there. They said I was developing. They said my heterosexual adjustment was quantitatively well above average. Of course, they said, there is always the […]
1. Burned Christ to a crisp. 2. On the Betty Crocker burner. 3. Tied a body to the railroad tracks. It wore the clothes of a girl. 4. Later found naked and weeping in the fields. 5. It was a body of straw. 6. It wore a note that said: I am God. 7. Drove […]
I had my faults. I had my so-called desires. I remained open to temptation. I argued with my colleagues. I did not reach 100 percent in my assignments. But I was no pry pole, I was subsidiary. I was aspiring to cog. I wanted to be a gullible sheep or a rowdy-dowdy shepherdess or a […]
1. I am a king’s. I am afraid I may be Ilia. I am always aware of my mother. I am furious with myself. I am going to sleep (Suicide Poem). I am Hermes. I am leading a quiet life. I am my lover’s and he desires me. 2. I am New York City. I […]
Suzanne Wise, author of the collection The Kingdom of the Subjunctive (Alice James Books, 2000), talks about the genesis of her poem Autobiography.
Suzanne Wise, author of the collection The Kingdom of the Subjunctive (Alice James Books, 2000), talks about reading her poems aloud.
Suzanne Wise is the author of the poetry collection The Kingdom of the Subjunctive (Alice James Books, 2000). Her poetry has also appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: the Next Generation and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, and in the journals Tikkun, Pierogi Press, Boston Review, Fence, and elsewhere. She has taught […]