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“Legacy” [by Elaine Equi]
Legacy Now X is dead, so Y can be X.And Z is dead, so A can be Z.There’s no shame in becoming someone else.You may be even better at it than they were.At times…
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Film Still Series – #53
From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman.
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Recent Faves from Smalbany.
Drawing by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, author of Oh, Terrible Youth. Greetings from Daniel Nester, one of your guest bloggers here for the week, writing to you from Albany, which I call, alternatively, Smalbany, Alcoholbany,…
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Judith Hall presents a poem by Dorothea Tanning
EVENING He told us, with the years, you will comeTo love the world.And we sat there with our souls in our laps,And comforted them. — Dorothea Tanning from The Antioch Review, Winter 2004, v.…
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Random + goodbye [Kathleen Ossip]
In transit tonight, I did a quick search for a final BAP blog poem. Got myself over to Octopus and browsed around. Found this little one by Ada Limon. My first impulse was to…
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“Is Cheryl Blossom Rich?” [by Janice Erlbaum]
Is Cheryl Blossom Rich? Cheryl Blossom, dryad of the seventh grade,At a school named for a forest: Greenwood, Oakwood. She takes ballet, walks like a birch,Her liquid hair waves hello in the hallway.Cheryl Blossom:…
