"I opened the menu, but it wasn’t a menu, just a list of exorbitant prices..." Zanne Langlois's "First Date Last" is a sharp take on dating that seems to become a metaphor for, maybe, trying to be human in 21st C. America. Please read at Scoundrel Time! scoundreltime.com/last-date-fi...
I'm curating the poems at Zocalo Public Square this month. They asked me a few questions. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/10/04/o...
Daisy Fried is the author of five books of poetry, including the forthcoming My Destination. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Hodder
I'm curating the poems for Zocalo Public Square this month. First up is a delicious one to read and listen to: Tila Neguse's "Wandalust," for and after #WandaColemanwww.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/10/04/t...
Tila Neguse is a poet and the associate director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College
I'm thrilled to announce that simultaneous to Flood Editions putting out my next book of poems, My Destination, on this side of the Atlantic, Carcanet Press will put it out on the other side, in 2026. A dream team! I'm feeling lucky all over again!
"when police in riot gear show up, flank the streets around mondawmin, we run — still not a crime" Kathleen Hellen's "domino" is featured at Scoundrel Time this week, an edgy performance of sympathy and identification set in Baltimore. Please read! scoundreltime.com/domino/
Remember how when my last book--30 ms. pages of poems--came out, I was touting the excellence of a really concise volume? Well, this year I'm a big fan of the fat volume, which has nothing--nothing, I say--to do w/the fact that my next book (coming in 2026) has 82 pages of poems.
"...does the world need one more poem about survival amidst the wrack of nature when the works of man rise above?" If Ian Wilson wrote it, the answer is yes. Read "The Fire's Metaphor" at Scoundrel Time for its excellence, read it for its twist. scoundreltime.com/the-fires-me...
Last year, Scoundrel Time published Ari Mokdad's "The Aayrouni Olives Always Grow Best." I'm thinking about this poem as I think about what's happening to Lebanon today. scoundreltime.com/the-aayrouni...
"It was November and the trees were alight and the Head was also alight." You can read Dawn Potter's latest eerie, fascinating #poem#scoundreltimescoundreltime.com/the-burning-...
"But on the other hand is a rifle, levelled at my face like shaken finger..." George Murray's timely, astute poems about violence & toxic masculinity are up @scoundreltime.bsky.socialscoundreltime.com/two-poems-by...
