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Poems of the Day

Psychoanalysis: An Elegy by Jack Spicer

"What Do Women Want?" by Kim Addonizio

Wedding Dress by Michael Waters

Spring Chickens

Poetry News & Notes

The Creative Writing Program at NYU will host a tribute to Jack Gilbert in celebration of the poet's most recent book, The Dance Most of All, at 7 PM on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, at the school's Cantor Film Center. Given Gilbert's advanced age, this may be one of the last readings that he'll give in New York City. Click on the title of this post for details and additional information.

Also due to read:
--Linda Gregg;
--Jim Finnegan;
--Mary Karr;
--Gerald Stern;
and others.

Words to Live By #5,748

Damn everything but the circus!
…damn everything that is grim, dull,
motionless, unrisking, inward turning,
damn everything that won’t get into the
circle, that won’t enjoy, that won’t throw
its heart into the tension, surprise, fear
and delight of the circus, the round
world, the full existence…

e. e. cummings

In other news, I just had a poem accepted in Paradigm.

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Poem for the People

The people need a poem today,

I think, because it fogs. Somewhere kids

with frog boots sop up puddles, parents inhale

under a stray light. Shadows, slow rolling, pass.

Watch the sheets immerse us, dipping in and out of

lanes and aisles, sipping and stoking, stroking the vane.

America is so far behind...

we've made things difficult for ourselves.