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Today's Book of Poetry: Tiller North

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Today's book of poetry: Tiller North.   Rosa Lane.  Sixteen Rivers Press.  San Francisco, California.  2016. 

ROSA LANE is a native of coastal Maine, with familial and ancestral roots steeped in lobster fishing. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of the poetry chapbook Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press, East, 1980). Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Briar Cliff Review, Crab Orchard Review, New South, and Ploughshares. After earning her second master’s and a Ph.D. in sustainable architecture from UC Berkeley, Lane works as an architect and divides her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her partner.

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Marissa

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First links to her poems/lyrics...

• I Wore Red To Target
• The Plight of Snowball: A Dog Lost In A Cat’s Body

• Who the hell is Marissa Bergen?

  Marissa Bergen, Rock and Roll Supermom. Los Angeles!
  

  Driving With My Blinker On Again

    by Marissa Bergen
  
  Driving in my car in the middle of the day
  Hoping that I’m able to remember my way
  I start and stop can’t recall is it left or right
  So I pull the switch and there goes on my signal light
  
  Chorus:
  I’m driving with my blinker on again
  You never know how this will end
  Will I make a right or left or even turn you’ll never guess
  I’m driving with my blinker on again
  Well at one point I’m sure I did intend to turn
  Now you’re asking me where my driving I did learn
  Well I’m pretty sure it was the school for the crazy
  Directionally challenged and curmudgeonly old ladies
  
  Chorus
  
  Bridge:
  You were getting pretty hopeful down on Ave B
  But now that we’re on M you’ve nearly given up on me
  That light is winking at you and it’s driving you insane
  You’d try to get around me too bad it’s a single lane
  Well it’s finally time to lose me at any cost
  Might go mile out or you could end up getting lost
  Try to turn right but suddenly out of the blue
  I decide to make that right, right in front of you
  
  
   

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The Goose Who Thinks He is a Sandhill Crane

those are dogs?

there are no words... just a sigh... inspired too?

exactly... and writing fiction I might add... BOOM ♀

 

Poet Rafeef Ziadah

she sings bombs called words - 'We teach life, sir', London, 12.11.11

Barbie humor

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Somebody That I Used to Know - Walk off the Earth

I Could Be a Boxer

I Could Be a Boxer

I have a history
of growing back wisdom
teeth, parting my gums
like persimmon fruit
and making it look easy.
Like bright dead things
look easy or carving
S.O.S. in fresh cement,
the branch moving
like arms or legs.
But I know my body—
it’s a stove that learned
early how to bake
a life or take one.
Like mending a crow’s
wing when I was eight,
its feathers thick
enough to fill an urn.
And birthing that tooth?
was like punching out
a bruised rib but
I took it like God
was in my throat
telling me not to cede.

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Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). A Pushcart Prize–nominated poet with a MFA in Creative Writing from the New School, she has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, Poets House, and the Vermont Studio Center. Manick’s work has appeared in American Review, Bone Bouquet, Callaloo, Kweli Journal, Muzzle Magazine, Pedestal Magazine, Tidal Basin, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. A LINK TO HER NEWSLETTER

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What Does Wisdom Look Like? 👌

What Does Wisdom Look Like??👌

The end result became known as “The Wisdom Matrix,” a graphic design seen everywhere from the Rubin Museum’s website to the subway platforms of New York. It’s also the namesake of the 2016 fall series.

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