February 2012
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Reverse Engineering by Beau Sia →
we may end tomorrow, like paris’ youth. but i want to believe you’re forever like affordable drinking water. i’d ask you to live in the now with me, but both of us are tired of that marketing scam, and i just want to hold the parts of you that can’t be sold.
let’s share our tragedies so we don’t become textbooks filled with omissions, let’s give our faults a chance, knowing they don’t have to...
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“The day of the end of my wait was called “Thursday,” and I tried to pretend...”
– An excerpt from Blue Alyssa and the Sad Gray Crab by Amy Letter, as published in PANK magazine.
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“How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city—arches, pillars,...”
– atlantis—a lost sonnet, eavan boland (via rufflebutts)
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“When my body had forgotten its purpose,
when it just hung off my brainstem like...”
– “December,” Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (via clavicola)
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“I remember his face now,
he and his girlfriend mashed like Juicy Fruit
in that...”
– Excerpt from Cave Canem fellow Shirlette Ammons’s poem, History Makes Concessions for White Boys At the Food Lion. For more on her, check out her profile on Cave Canem.
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“(Belated) Elegy For Brautigan
A woman from Tacoma
screams your name
while...”
– Howie Good, in Black Heart Magazine (via ibegantoseevoices)
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“Because he’s sixty-five years old, weighs five hundred pounds, and is mostly...”
– Excerpt from “Feet,” by Teresa Milbrodt, as published in PANK Magazine.
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WatchHere’s a video to get you excited about this week’s feature: this video is of Brave New Voices and NPS 2011 veteran Angel Nafis, performing her poem, “Open.”
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“In school that fall, Mr. Brock nervously taught the boys
“reproduction” like a...”
– An excerpt from Matthew Volmer’s Sex Education, as published in PANK Magazine.
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“My colleagues accuse me of cynicism, but I am simply a victim of poetry.”
– Barbara Kingsolver [The Poisonwood Bible] (via tum-buh-lur)
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“To a Dear Friend Mothering Misery
Every time your grief cries,
you pick it...”
– by Kamilah Aisha Moon, as published in Lodestar Quarterly
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New album! New tracks! Purchase "Carrie Rudzinski:... →
carrierudzinski:
18 tracks. 45 minutes. The send-off feature for Carrie Rudzinski to represent the Boston Poetry Slam at the 2010 Individual World Poetry Slam, “Live at The Boston Poetry Slam” was recorded October 6th, 2010 at The Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Recorded by Anne Thomas.
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“That’s right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that’s kind of perverted or maybe it’s...”
– Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
(Alexie just has the best quotes, no?)
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“How to Miss a Man
Breathing is just a rhythm. Tell yourself this so that the...”
– Karen McCadden, as published in Issue 6 of PANK magazine. If you like this, go check out or buy the rest of Issue 6!
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hownottodoyourtwenties:
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing...
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“I’ve always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. … I...”
– Former poet laureate Donald Hall on poetry. (via nprfreshair)
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carrierudzinski:
New poem, new track, new...
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“He never said one kind word to her.
My father, I mean. To my mother, I mean....”
– Excerpt from Eugenia Leigh’s “Testament,” as published on PANK Magazine.
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Offbeat Orbit: And When You Leave, Take Your... →
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Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us sitting at a factory machine wielding a machete in our bright bandanas holding brown yellow black red children reading books from literacy campaigns holding machine guns bayonets bombs knives Our white sisters radical friends should think again.
Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us walking to the...
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“Gap
by Gary Jackson
Every year, my mother reminds me
to place flowers on my...”
– Gary Jackson, as published in the February 2009 issue of Literary Bohemian.
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“There must be a train station
never arrived at
smoky boxcar teak
and rum; a...”
– Nicole Terez Dutton, “Elements” (via aubade)
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“Butterfly Nut House – in memory of PJC
We buried you, in a cold snap, during...”
– by Lynne Procope. Taken from her page on the LouderArts homepage, where you can find out everything going on Monday nights at Bar 13.
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“The Genius Performs Taxidermy
He did minimal research.
He fell asleep reading...”
– Sierra DeMulder—tonight’s Cantab feature!—as published in Kill Author.
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“The Rain
Galileo was in love with God.
He pursued Her in the cosmos,
with...”
– by Khary Jackson. For more of Khary, check out his site.
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“You are almost dying, smooth
thin wrists, all the time. This is
what waiting...”
– Nicole Terez Dutton, “Chaser” (via aubade)
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“Jem
We smile and pretend to enjoy each other’s company.
A little girl’s tea...”
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Omar Holmon, as published in PANK Magazine, September 2009. Want more? Check out the original here on pank.
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“The Secret Art of Reading a Comic
(after Auden)
The old comics were never...”
– Gary Jackson, from his book Missing You, Metropolis
(Not sure what the Auden Gary references is? It’s this poem by W.H. Auden, which in turn talks about Brueghel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.)