Jennifer Grotz
She could find another walk, but she doesn't want to,
she doesn't want to get in the car to avoid the walk,
avoid the death, avoid the river.
from the book
Still Falling /
Graywolf Press
In our series Other Arts, we asked poets to write about experiences in other arts and the making of poetry.
- September 26, 2023
Matt Broaddus
There are voices there, you know,
saints and rams and cave dwellers,
the trash of centuries I collect
in a corner with a dustpan
I trip over, spilling everything together.
- September 25, 2023
Cindy Juyoung Ok
Where was I to look?
Patients laid along both
long walls.
- September 24, 2023
Max Sessner (translated from the German by Francesca Bell)
in her dreams it often appeared
but always as if it belonged to someone
else a cold comfort we thought
- September 23, 2023
Brenda Shaughnessy
It's just an object, it's not me.
I'm more than an object, we are not having tea.
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