Landscapes (little farmy poem) (mine).
Landscapes Last year I met garlic scapes and I loved them on impact and incorrectly called them snapes for almost a year. Then I learned their name and learned their twisting goose-necked beauty and...
View ArticleNo more snark, let’s all be kind (I agree with George Saunders).
How sick of snark are you? Are you as sick of it as I am? And I’m sick if irony, too. I’m hoping we’re in a post-ironic era by now, though perhaps we’re not quite there yet. Irony, to me, is a...
View ArticlePoem from over a year ago (melancholy, rambling, true).
Pizza Time Sometimes I feel like I’m whispering into a megaphone that’s turned off says Sean, reading from a blue notebook he made in art class last semester. He sits down. I’m already sitting and...
View ArticleThis is the best thing on the internet (POETRY + HIP HOP).
The internet is too big to talk about as a whole, but on the whole I’ll generalize and say that my favorite thing about the internet is….this. So now that you clicked on that link, click the little...
View ArticleI paid $8 for this poem (and I don’t regret it) (Ben Aleshire).
Sometimes you’re in New Orleans for a bachelorette weekend with your favorite ladies and you meet a Vermont poet with a typewriter on the street and you ask for a poem please and he writes you one and...
View ArticlePoem inspired by a painting (my poem; Clare Elsaesser’s painting)/
I am the girl with flowers in front of her face I am the girl with flowers in front of her face. You cannot see my face and all I care about is keeping the flowers in place. They are huger than I...
View ArticlePoetry Awesomes of the New Year Thus Far (list).
Poetry Awesomes of the New Year Thus Far a short list from a short poet 1. As I’ve mentioned before, Cassandra Gillig, who I want to be friends with (HELLO CASSANDRA DO YOU WANT TO BE FRIENDS I AM A...
View ArticleRead this poem it will take you 5 seconds (Eileen Myles)!
Just read this poem it will only take you 5 seconds to do so and hey who knows maybe you will really love it maybe you will be like OOOOOH-KAY, POEMS, I DIG! Or maybe you’ll want to send it to a loved...
View ArticleTiny revelation poem (mine).
Something I’ve Learned From Author Photos I don’t have the right glasses to be successful.
View ArticleMourning for Galway Kinnell, poet & Vermont person.
Maybe it’s just because I’m stretched as thin as cheap stockings right now and prone to emotions, but I cried this morning hearing (again) about the passing of Galway Kinnell. I learned to love his...
View ArticlePatti Smith Month: An Introduction
What Is Patti Smith Month? An answer I made up about a thing I made up I loathe when people complain about the weather. It’s like complaining about being in a body. Being in a body is 1) the only...
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