Against ourselves / we stand no chance—. This #poem by Brenda Shaughnessy (Copper Canyon Press).
In September 2010, I began photographing poems as they appear in books. My thanks to the poets and publishers who produced these subjects.
July 16, 2017
July 16, 2017
Amid Ron Padgett’s tender translations of Apollinaire, this Ron Padgett gem… @NYRB_Imprints, #poem
July 16, 2017
Escaping gravity. This #poem by Airea Matthews from “Simulcra” (Yale University Press).
July 16, 2017
A chuch, a cathedral, the body. This #poem by Camille T. Dungy, from “Suck on the Marrow” (Red Hen Press)
January 7, 2017
The genius moment. Or this by Mai Der Vang from her forthcoming collection, “Afterland” (Graywolf Press, 2017)
May 27, 2014
May “we” not be sparing. Or this by Elizabeth Robinson
From Blue Heron, The Center for Literary Publishing, CSU 2013
March 31, 2014
A red van is sometimes a sign. Or this, by Elaine Equi.
From “Ripple Effect: new and Selected Poems” (Coffee House Press, 2007)
March 28, 2014
“Of your struggling text.” More from Anne Waldman’s Gossamurmur.
March 26, 2014
“function,” rage, persona, street. Or this, by Anne Waldman
From Gossamurmur (Poets, Penguin)
February 26, 2014
Fleetingly. Or this “Poem” by Buck Downs.