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Making a Move
I'm moving Big Window over to WordPress. Please come visit me at the new locale!photo by Leonardo Martin ...
In the Trance by Brenda Hillman
A pretty anarchist said to me It’s not that a great love happens What happened became your great loveHer echo had an ancient glow & so proved buoyant for my little craftI left the world & felt a worldThe bee loading its gloves with powderTh...
Leaves/Tongues by Molly Bendall & Gail Wronsky
Let me be "straight" with you where I'm coming from: a word- like ...
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
The eyes open to a cry of pulleys, And spirited from sleep, the astounded soul Hangs for a moment bodiless and simple As false dawn. Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels. Some are in bed-sheets, some are in b...
DIY Dream Poem
Here's a fun sounding exercise from Read Write Poem. It's by Bruce Covey. Let us know if you give it a try!X=13, Y=21 Where there are coins, there’s matter, A narrow strip of over 700,000 in this province. Today the birds are green and the roofs...
City Beach by Dora Malech
Your mouth said so long from so long said high tide's not a timid girl is what is missing. I could clap flippers skip the asterisk and hop a plane. Some mouths say nets and not nets to trust around anyone's daughter. ...
City Beach by Dora Malech
Your mouth said so long from so long said high tide's not a timid girl is what is missing. I could clap flippers skip the asterisk and hop a plane. Some mouths say nets and not nets to trust around anyone's daughter. Ask wha...
Troubleton by Sarah Guess
There's a great new issue of Sixth Finch up this month. Here's an amazing poem by Carol Guess: ...
Troubleton by Sarah Guess
There's a great new issue of Sixth Finch up this month. Here's an amazing poem by Carol Guess: ...
Absence Makes the Heart
Have you seen the wondrous new issue of Absent Magazine? Exemplifying said awesomeness, I've re-posted "love Poem" by Lauren Ireland. Also represented in this issue are: Dan Boehl Karen Carcia Darcie Dennigan Jessica Fjeld Andrea ...
Absence Makes the Heart
Have you seen the wondrous new issue of Absent Magazine? Exemplifying said awesomeness, I've re-posted "love Poem" by Lauren Ireland. Also represented in this issue are: Dan Boehl Karen Carcia Darcie Dennigan Jessica Fjeld Andrea Henchey ...
EOAGH 5: The Mega Mega Edition
Another amazing edition of EOAGH has been posted, and it's huge and, as I said, amazing! Here's one by the poet Robyn Art. Please hustle on over and see the rest! [Theories of Colony Collapse Disorder] 1.Because the river is full ...
EOAGH 5: The Mega Mega Edition
Another amazing edition of EOAGH has been posted, and it's huge and, as I said, amazing! Here's one by the poet Robyn Art. Please hustle on over and see the rest! [Theories of Colony Collapse Disorder] 1.Because the river is full of hol...
Fargo Bardo by Paula Cisewski
By sandbag by flood by fire and by beetstink by traincars by offers by youth by wrinkledom by hospital by cowardice by a slapdash collection of ands by a stalwart obsession with carrion birds by living by living within a......
Dream by Dorothea Lasky
The woman we did not know the Woman, she was unloved We started first with shame And told her not to have any We sat her down At the table with us It was at this point That has I saw the dot Small and red That had only been white wall ...
Kelp by Paul Farley
A puppet forest has gone to wrack and ruin: it rubbernecked the prom but lies unspooled now on the rocks. Two shows a day, the celluloid of the sea. We're building a projector from a tide-pool's moving parts, the salt driftwo...
A Certain Swirl by Mary Ruefle
The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty, and the sentence on the board was frightened to find itself alone. The sentence wanted someone to read it, the sentence thought it was a fine sentence, a noble, thorough sentence,......
from 60 Morning Walks by Andy Fitch
Friday Fearing bronchitis I slept through the alarm and didn’t get out until 9:15. From the courtyard sparrows whistled on either side. The day felt complete, a little tiring even. A police officer propped against a red door frowned when......
Eclipse the Light & Crudely Divide by Amy King
Milk is a mythical moth that sees its own heart, mostly in summer. Some kind of pillow moves me too and dissolves my palate; I cannot taste the shabby white wings and behold each shadow’s infancy beneath the definition of......
Fonder a Care Kept by Heidi Lynn Staples
I was barn. I was razed. I was mot this flame with no’s sum else blue’s blame noir yearning down the house. No, it was I and I blank I bandit blather that louse that fiddle-dee-dee little lame chimera that......
[white spring] by Lisa Olstein
I am working on a specimen so pale it is like staring at snow from the bow of a ship in fog. I lose track of things—articulation of wing, fineness of hair—as if the moth itself disappears, but remains as......
Open 47: Death and Shoes (Stolen from Linda Jacobs)
I like this writing exercise by Linda Jacobs so much that I've stolen it. Well, provided a link to it anyway. Check out her idea of writing about death and shoes on the blog, Totally Optional Prompts. I think it's......
Consonant Clusters
Check out a new vispo ezine by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen called Consonant Clusters. In this ezine he publishes some of his own work (as in the example below) as well as other visual poets from around the world. It's a great......
After Tourism by Ann Lauterbach
Disturbed over her marvel I heard her say something nocturnal I saw mystery as merely change I saw envy and the illegitimate mile I saw under the formal atrocity at the messy embankment all these and vocabulary lagging behind its......
Toon Tune by Gustave Morin
This is part of a series of post on Visual Poetry that Geof Huth did for the Poetry Foundation. Here's an excerpt about Gustave Morin's fun example of VisPo:Gustave Morin's primary form is the collage poem. His "toon tune" is......
Sleepless Graffiti by Lee Ann Roripaugh
Warning hiss of sinusitis—right eye socket’s emergency road flare of pain flickering the morning dark. All night long, thoughts you didn’t want to think which nonetheless still insisted on being thought about cylindered inside your skull like t...
Clare's Song by Evie Shockley
blonde fair bleached faded pale pastel light blameless clean guiltless innocent pure clear anatomy build figure person physique form complexion countenance hue mien tint cast bead dab dash iota ounce spot trace drop succeed answer do qualify suffice ...
The Love Song of the Square Root of Minus One (i) by Richard Siken
I am the wind and the wind is invisible, all the leaves tremble but I am invisible, blackbird over the dark field but I am invisible, what fills the balloon and what it moves through, knot without rope, bloom without......
I Am Followed by Strange Ghosts by Sarah Manguso
They look at me lovingly and rattle their chains a little. When I awaken they are already standing around the bed, looking at me as if ready to speak, but they never speak. Whose memories are these? After My Great-Grandmother......
Hands Washing Water by Chris Abani
Even in the falling a train breaks for the light. The tunnel, the darkness – never sweeter. This body is not real. Yet living. This living body. There is a child. The blessed coolness of water. And hands by Chris......
