 |
 |
|
| MONICA FERRELL |
| Four Poems |
| Salon, June 2001. |
'A god can do it'--yes. But a girl?
The Greeks named it hubris,
As if she had a choice: this is all
She knows how to be… |
|
|
 |
|
| PATRICIA FERRELL |
| "My Institutionals" |
| Salon, June 2001. |
White rooms exist for bargains with the self.
Entirely possible to let you go,
With a staff to care for me… |
|
|
 |
|
| EMILY FRAGOS |
| "Callas in Hamburg" |
| Salon, November 2002. |
Who says it is beautiful, that middle range, lies–
For it is not, nor is it meant to be… |
|
|
 |
|
| JEREMY GLAZIER |
| Two Poems |
| The Culture Project, June 2005. |
You spoke to me of fractal dimensions, increase,
convinced me that every name was made of numbers.
. . . Aren't we born of that higher
order? Isn't friction the backdraft of desire? |
|
|
 |
|
| MARILYN HACKER |
| "Migraine Sonnets" |
| Salon, November 2002. |
It's a long way from the bedroom to the kitchen
when all the thought in back of thought is loss… |
|
|
 |
|
| MATTHEA HARVEY |
| "Thermae" |
| Salon, April 2001. |
| Because he is thinking so hard about his ode, because his mind is full of what if I fail, what if I can't imagine it he doesn't notice the man with the ill-fitting toga… |
|
|
 |
|
| ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
| The Art of Fiction No. 21 |
| Read by Lewis Lapham and Timothy Sutton |
| Cipriani, October 2003. |
| The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry… |
|
|
|
|
| ANN HOOD |
| "Total Cave Darkness" Part 1 |
| November 2000. |
| He calls her Sweetheart, Darling, Honey Pie. Martha calls him Reverend… |
|
|
|
|
| ANN HOOD |
| "Total Cave Darkness" Part 2 |
| November 2000. |
| The Reverend looks like a little boy out there, kicking stones, sulking. Nine years between them is really a lot of years, Martha thinks, not for the first time… |
|
|
 |
|
| DENIS JOHNSON |
| "Hippies" |
| Read by George Plimpton |
| Culture Project, October 2000. |
| The eastern end of the Ochoco Forest seems quiet enough, a showcase for the public administration of nature… |
|
|
|
|
|
|
