Month: September 2021

Here’s a poem by one of my favorite poets, Patricia Smith. Her suite of poems on hurricane Kartrina & its rape of New Orleans is, to me, a masterpiece, the kind of work that I never have been able to make in the way that it takes a single subject through so many registrations that… Continue reading “You’re Gonna Write This” by Patricia Smith

Hello,This prose poem, unlike the others that I’ve sent to (not shared with) you, is not so very dense & florid, but rather relaxed & calmly cynical / smile inducing. It is constructed atop the obvious oxymoron that “now” could possibly be “more than” “ever”. Opinion might vary on that, but I say, emphatically, never.We… Continue reading “Now More Than Ever” by Morgan Parker