by McKenzie | Oct 21, 2015 | Reading
TO THE NEW MOON Come night. Come sirens and midnight babies born in the backseats of taxicabs. Come moon. You crazy weeping alcoholic, quit drinking yourself into nothingness. Someone’s trumpet has gone missing tonight. Someone is looking for you,...
by McKenzie | Oct 21, 2015 | Blog, Literary Scene
Hi everyone! Just in case you haven’t heard, poet Tracey Knapp will be reading at IU South Bend tomorrow night at 7:30pm on the Bridge on the third floor of Weikamp Hall. She will be reading from her first full-length collection, Mouth, published by 42...
by McKenzie | Oct 21, 2015 | Poetry Collections, Reviews
Let me begin by playing a round of Two Truths and a Lie… We all know how this works, right? The speaker shares two truths about themselves, and a lie, but the lie must not be easily distinguished from the two truths, and the other players are supposed to...
by McKenzie | Oct 20, 2015 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog
Hi all! Just in case you haven’t heard elsewhere, my surrealist poem, “The Healer,” is in this year’s The Spooklet! Dear Editors, thank you so much for this recognition and giving this poem a home and for all the work you put into these...
by McKenzie | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog, My Poems
or heart—like breathing, you enter waist-high grasses, the tan of prairie dog, fern, wild lily, & the wind takes you up into itself, your body curves & sways with the grasses, canvas, Magritte of the field & passing. How you ended up here,...
