poetry
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On pain.
Habitual drug use ruins lives. But the War on Drugs ends them.
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On poetry: Erin Belieu’s ‘When at a Certain Party in NYC’
You can’t always get what you want – from your local library – but you might just find, you get what you need.
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On killer line breaks.
Tracy K. Smith’s poetry collection Life on Mars is excellent, combining bursts of science-fiction weirdness with totally non-speculative emotional clarity. If you chance upon a copy, you might try flipping to her poems “The Museum of Obselencence,” or “Sci-Fi,” or “My God, It’s Full of Stars,” particularly the fifth strophe of that last one; those are…
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On poetry.
We recently had the good fortune of being invited to Ross Gay‘s book release for his new volume of poetry. So we bundled N into her spacesuit, braved the cold, and went — thank you, Ross, for a wonderful evening! His new poem “To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian” is spectacular, so kind and…
Frank Brown Cloud 