poetry
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Elizabeth
“If you should dip your hand in, your wrist would ache immediately,” from “At the Fishhouses”, by Elizabeth Bishop
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“To Psychoanalysis” by Kenneth Koch
I took the Lexington Avenue subway To arrive at you in your glory days Of the Nineteen Fifties when we believed That you could solve any problem And I had nothing but disdain For “self-analysis” “group analysis” “Jungian analysis” “Adlerian analysis” the Karen Horney kind All—other than you, pure Freudian type— Despicable and never to…
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“Stray Beast” by Sarah Jean Grimm
I cannot recommend highly enough Sarah Jean Grimm‘s “Soft Focus” from Metatron out of Montreal. The poem above grabbed me by the throat. I still have the finger marks from last night’s reading. Buy the book (might I suggest the entire Spring 2017 catalog?) and support great, living poets.
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Dear Poets
. FORM I don’t want to tell you how to do your job I don’t want to tell you how to do your job FORM FORM I don’t want to tell you how to do your job I don’t want to tell you how to do your job FORM FORM I don’t want to tell…
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“I Am Calling You” Laura McCullough
from the March/April issue of American Poetry Review
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Agnes Martin
long-legged myotis qui gatta ci cova opinion one pale yellow ray of scapulae
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Poetess
if one would iridesce greed one two three patterns emerge one skin of ochre two blood like blood three one can do nothing to embrace one’s poetess hang a snare one two three from the nose of a fox one two three what awaits one there one spiked leather collar two three a black vinyl dress one’s beard…