Tag: chapbook
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* strange week & a poem
It’s been a strange week here in my world. I promise to be back with a more regular post next week. For now, please enjoy this poem of mine published originally in Hanging Loose, a great magazine out of Brooklyn. More info on them can be found here. The poem comes from my time working […]
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* special feature: Poet Lore magazine & a poem
“I know you are reading this poem as you pace beside the stove warming milk, a crying child on your shoulder, a book in your hand because life is short and you too are thirsty.” —Adrienne Rich This week on the Influence: Poet Lore! One piece of advice that has helped me grow in spirit […]
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* Fanny Howe & the friday influence
(poem from Robeson Street) – Fanny Howe Pushing children in plaid & silver prams us mothers were dumpy, hunched in the damp and our redlipped infants sucked on their strange fingers […]
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* Kay Ryan chills on the friday influence
Say Uncle – Kay Ryan Every day you say, Just one more try. Then another irrecoverable day slips by. You will say ankle, you will say knuckle; why won’t you why won’t you say uncle? *** This week on the Influence: Kay Ryan. When I go back to this poem, I’m always taken in by the speed of […]
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* poems from The Wall & a feature
Check out two poems from my chapbook, The Wall, as well as a small essay featured on the Tiger’s Eye blog: http://tigerseyepoet.blogspot.com/ The essay is a little insight into the process of writing the series of poems that became The Wall. Best, J
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divagations, & the friday influence
Elms – C.K. Williams All morning the tree men have been taking down the stricken elms skirting the broad sidewalks. The pitiless electric chain saws whine tirelessly up and down their piercing, operatic scales and the diesel choppers in the street shredding the debris chug feverishly, incessantly, packing truckload after truckload with the feathery, homogenized, […]
The Friday Influence 