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Celebrating 15 Years of the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship
“We launched this series of chapbooks, selected and introduced by distinguished contemporary poets, in 2003, bringing the total of poetry debuts as of this spring to sixty,” said Alice Quinn, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America, as she discussed the PSA’s Chapbook Program, which publishes each winner’s work as a gorgeous chapbook, allowing new voices to reach new audiences.
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Joseph O. Legaspi on “This Town, Empty Nest”
A poet, at times, is the last person to know or to know how to talk about his poems. So, it starts often with the declarative for me, an insistence. With this poem it is a banishment: there are no children here. What a lonesome, futureless place of absence and ghostly laughter.
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To the Reader: Twilight
Chase Twichell
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As featured in: Drew Gardner on "Raised by Wolves"
I Am Always Leaving to Gather the News
I sit there, I go away, I let pavement push
against. Epicenter converses shifting. 1906 loops
translation from universally understood spatial
signifiers, tremors card games from a competitive
streak. Documentation spokes plaintive
thoughts through aggregate arrivals. A wafted neighborhood
arranged into a fleeting horizon. Bills are resource,
design axioms our limbs clean. I hand
wash my clothes because machines clamor:
down coat, wool scarf, conventional glove wearing
weather. I am tired of this. I take public transportation.
The tacked down rush-off of the crowd detonates—