FWIW: My posts on For Godot's Issue 1 are now “anthologized” in Issue 2 [pdf].
Hat tip: Charles Bernstein
Friday, November 21, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Survival: Infantry
by George Oppen
And the world changed.
There had been trees and people,
Sidewalks and roads
There were fish in the sea.
Where did all the rocks come from?
And the smell of explosives
Iron standing in mud
We crawled everywhere on the ground without seeing the earth again
We were ashamed of our half life and our misery; we saw that
everything had died.
And the letters came. People who addressed us thru our lives
They left us gasping. And in tears
In the same mud in the terrible ground
And the world changed.
There had been trees and people,
Sidewalks and roads
There were fish in the sea.
Where did all the rocks come from?
And the smell of explosives
Iron standing in mud
We crawled everywhere on the ground without seeing the earth again
We were ashamed of our half life and our misery; we saw that
everything had died.
And the letters came. People who addressed us thru our lives
They left us gasping. And in tears
In the same mud in the terrible ground
If poetry journal
If now has an online component to its print journal. It is seeking poems to publish, two or three a week, along with reviews of poetry collections and interviews with writers. To submit, please send 3-5 poems (in the e-mail, no attachments) to the editor Don Illich at ifpoetryjournaleditor [at] gmail [dirt] com. Specify in the email that your work is for the online journal.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
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