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Found(ed) in 2009 (still travelogue by Jessica Piazza)
Yesterday, my lovely friend Meaghan took me (along with our friends Bree and Adrian) to the most remarkable place. It’s called “the Cathedral of Junk,” and it lives in a backyard in South Austin.…
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Patricia Carlin presents a poem by Lyn Hejinian
This week’s poem is “from The Fatalist” by Lyn Hejinian (Barrow Street, Winter 2002). from The Fatalist People talk about the ineluctable character of the “lyric moment”but it seems to me that it is…
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“Snow-Bound” by John Greenleaf Whittier
The sun that brief December dayRose cheerless over hills of gray,And, darkly circled, gave at noonA sadder light than waning moon.Slow tracing down the thickening skyIts mute and ominous prophecy,A portent seeming less than…
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“Mario de Andrade’s Descent into Hell” by Carlos Drummond de Andrade [trans. Ron Horning]
Mário de Andrade’s Descent into Hell I In twenty years I’ll write your poemand sing of you with lines so strongthey’ll force flowers open, and bees,confused, will forget to make honey. In twenty…
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Stephanie Brown in “Ploughshares”
<< In the raw data of a census, you can see who lived next door to whom, their households with grandchildren, lodgers, slaves; how they are marked as illiterate, what language their parents spoke,…
