New work up at Adanna Literary Journal

I’m one of the featured poets for the special page on women’s poems about our bodies. Read all the poems, they’re great! Adanna Literary Journal Featured Poets Page

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On Casey Anthony and Incest Statistics

On Casey Anthony and Incest Statistics Look, I don’t know what happened in Florida years ago. A child is dead. I wish for her sake that the death was a painless accident, one with no fear, violence, terror. I am not being callous when I say that so many many children are dead, ones the [...]

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April 25 – None of us deserved this

None of us deserved this None of us deserved this, but still we are held accountable. We’d bought the lie that sexy was the same as having power, we’d believed we had a right to walk to work, to go to school, to live in the city, to live in the country. We’d survived through [...]

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April 11 – found poem, NYTimes follow-up story

Megan Waterman, 22; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27 vanished drew little or no notice—prospect of a serial killer four more bodies—that changed Shannan Gilbert, 24, a prostitute but much more aspiring actress oldest daughter of Mari Gilbert Mari Gilbert said police failed to take her seriously until Long Island’s [...]

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April 5th – found poem, New York Times

Long Island barrier beach, Monday, Found poem from New York Times 4/5/2011 remains of three more people bringing number to eight [not people but] missing prostitutes. Grim December, bodies of four female prostitutes, a fifth last Tuesday. Authorities would not speculate about the identities; four, in their 20s, advertised on Craigslist. Eyewitnesses, phone records, budget [...]

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Let The Translating Begin!

So, having finished my MFA in poetry, and taken a semester to rest, I’ll be going back to school in late June to work on the poetry in translation track of Drew’s MFA program. Yes, me, translating, even though I’ve pretty much utterly failed to succeed in learning any other language, ever, and the thought [...]

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Asking the Unasked Question About Gay Teen Suicide

Asking the Unasked Question About Gay Teen Suicide Elliott batTzedek On Coming Out Day, October 11, 1987, I was supposed to be in DC. Instead, I’d stayed in Madison, WI, and agreed to have my parents come for an awkward, difficult visit, spilling over with things not said. That Sunday morning, after they’d left on [...]

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Notes toward a poem about Hedda and Lisa

Having just read an amazing poem by Jane Mead about Hedda Nussbaum and Lisa (do we still in good conscious use the last name of the man who beat her to death??), I’ve been thinking on them all morning. These are very rough notes toward something, although nothing like the firm calm grasp of an [...]

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Poem a day #30 Another Poem about Privilege

And here ends my National Poetry Month poem-a-day exercise. I did it—yeah! And yeah, too, for the month being over. Having to produce something every day has been amazing, and exhausting. I have a paper to finish now, so need the time I’d spend doing this. Last year I started poem a day and got, [...]

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Poem a day #15 Found Poem in Explanation of Events Beginning October 2007

if there is a lyric poem inside every narrative poem, isn’t there also a lyric poem inside of an essay? At least inside of a well-written essay, the pleasure of which is the combination of the well-researched opinion and the exceptionally good writing? It’s a theory, as is the Timing Hypothesis Cynthia Gorney explores in [...]

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