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Richard Roundy has been publishing some of my long-time — and newly — favorite poets as poetry editor of the young webzine Across the Margin, and I’m honored to join poets from Kit Robinson and Alan Bernheimer to Allison Cobb to Aaaron Simon to Lewis Warsh and Paul Maziar, just to name a very few, with the first of two sets […]

    (work toward a poem)   “…during each saccade, the eyes move as fast as they can…”   This much is true NO2 aluminum bulbs broken cycle spokes glottal stop frost dew bowling bowl lawn fall   And you, you metallic standing there gluing felt scraps & glitter to flute, recorder & zither while   You on the other […]

A poem from a set written not long after we moved to Shanghai and settled down in the French Concession near the old publisher’s row on Shaoxing Lu (once known as the Rue Victor-Emmanuel III). It was published at some point in Sal Mimeo. I tend not to think about old poems much, but the recent surge in American-Iranian […]