Category: Fall 2011 Poetry

Fingers Pull Triggers
by Hettie Jones Think about it: someone shoots your buddy dead — so you grab your gun and the blast you send strikes the heart of the matter —

Wearing the Sweater for Marilyn Colvin
by Hettie Jones As you advised, I am wearing the sweater I won’t be wearing after I’m dead I’m wearing it while I still have choices to leave

May the Force Be with You: A Poem about Meditation
by Diane di Prima Maybe they are never done with us the speechless full Moon or the Force, and how many other hearts ? Be like a mirror of

The Nature of Inspiration for Philip Whalen
Diane di Prima Read It said. I read. Then Write It said. I found the back of an envelope & wrote It down now Type It told me Fuck off I

Before Solstice
by Diane di Prima the mystery in the Brocade the jewels upon the Tree wild snatches of Song on the wind from a mouth Inhuman how could I turn

Dreams of Wartimes
by Anne Waldman There was a time when we were a flat earth why not consider our one dimension as total, then no one believed. Not to see

End of Track
by Gerard Malanga You’ll not find me in historic Hudson among the periwinkles and clematis. You’ll not find the footstep traces soon followed by

Don Snyder, Photographer
by Gerard Malanga What then of the pictures he left behind in his sleep the mounds of tabloids bundled and yellowed the looseleaf binders falling

Harry Fainlight, 1935 -1982
by Gerard Malanga He would’ve been the last one you’d expect to find out at Blackpool on a sea breeze winter’s day or at East Parade long past.

Janine Pommy Vega, 1942 – 2010
by Gerard Malanga She came from a place of no particular consequence with a vision as wide as the bright blue skies and lived by her wits, making