
April is National Poetry Month, so what better time to celebrate the work of our Pew Fellows in poetry? Today’s poet is CAConrad (2011).
Express an Interest in Listening or Flowers Won't Bother
greed it
seems
has no
memory
the little
bones they
throw us
break
my heart
some
days
i taste
the world
in a poem and
want
to be of
service
to that
taste
there is no doubt
the worst possible
things are possible
an epic
terrain of
anger no one
can move
out of you
it's best to let
flowers do
the talking
they say write
below your
century to
understand it
they say crying
in private helps
no one
they say touch
a gill of light
down there
they say an
asterisk is
the footnote
to a lie
they say never
use "permament"
in a sentence
containing
a noun
they say if
dancing is
prohibited
LEAVE
at once
from A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, Wave Books (2012)
CAConrad is the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012) and The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010/Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010).He is a 2012 UCross Fellow, a 2013 Banff Fellow, and a 2012 and 2013 visiting faculty member at the Summer Writing Program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.
Read more:
CAConrad's website >
CAConrad at Poets.org >
Photo by Ed Hille, courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer.