Reading e.e.cummings (a found poem)

  In lieu of e.e.cummings’ birthday—October 14, 1894—I have been reading his poems and wanted to create a found poem of some of his work. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Birthday, e.e.cummings. You were one of my first poetic loves.   a found...

Neutral Colors

                                                             —for Charles   Once I had a dream we were...

Miguel Hernández’s “Idea of a Poem”

 MY IDEA OF A POEM   What is a poem? A beautiful affected lie. An insinuated truth. Only by insinuating it will a truth not appear a lie. A truth as precious and hidden as anything from a mine. One needs to be a miner of poems to see in its Ethiopias of...

A Favorite Snippet of John Ashbery

  from John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”   How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and sand, Filtered and influenced by it, until...