I’m delighted to have a poem in this month’s Threepenny Review. I’d found a young screech owl on the sidewalk a block from my house, its talons sunk, in death, in the nape of a rabbit kit.
Here’s a link to the Threepenny website, and a photo of my poem below:
My blackout poem “To Raid the Necessary” (designed in collaboration with fiber artist Jodi Colella), is based on Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and is one of six winning posters chosen by Mass Poetry. All six poems are now on display at Soofa Kiosks. The posters were initially to be displayed on the MBTA but this agency determined the poems were too political. Altering historical documents by blacking out parts of the text creates a resonance between the original document and newfound material that reflects on poetry and democracy.
Very excited that our reading is happening next Thursday night . I love Gaby’s work and it’s a honor to be reading with her. I’ll read mostly new work. Can’t wait to hear hers. We’ll be doing a crafts talk as well. If you’re near Belmont, please come.
