CALLING ALL AGENTS When they come unexpected, love and letters unsettle as if to blow penciled hues that prick the pupils of one who scans a dying horizon for wooden branches of floral text. Hold out the web of your impulse; turn what stands before you to Braille. A built-in face would never last the…
THE FEAR OF HOPE IS ALSO BEAUTIFUL On horseback or mixing math with philosophy, her skin is tired, she is nervous, a never-ending boy, the kind with soundproof eyes that echo the faint hymn hers persuades the hand toward you with. Prick goes the fingertip, when she knocks more dents with a ball peen hammer…
Poetry Doesn’t Need a Defense By Amy King “Poetry in motion!” “Her use of poetic license awakens the spirit…” “The hands of poetry at work …” Whether it be about a film, book, painting, or the ballet, these oft-heard review statements have one thing in common: the knowledge that compositions revealing fresh and unusual techniques,…
THE TASTE OF LIGHT & OUR DIGESTIVE TRACTS I’m portable. My mind travels gulls and valleys between people. I’m at its heels, the grabbing of long white trains and veils, using their hats for sleds. Africa is one season without snow. I’m there too, testing the droughts for true water under skin cracks on distant…
A GOOD DAY RECIPE: I just ordered You Are STILL Being Lied To: The NEW Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths, found out that Wanda Sykes will host her own late night talk show, am currently reading two not-Americans’ poetry books: Caroline Bergvall’s Cropper (Torque Press) and Anny Ballardini’s Ghost Dance…
First, kick off April Fool’s Day and National Poetry Month with the killer song above by Andrew Bird and Martin Dosh, “Simple X.” I’m serious: this tune”ll make you feel good. Next, note that you can actively participate in the forging of new poems with a whole lotta other poets who participate in “NaPoWriMo” (National…
AMY KING 