From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Mar 6 15:10:18 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 18:10:18 -0500 Subject: [Realpoetik] NATASHA KESSLER [Part Three] Message-ID: [image: FlowerBomb.jpg] *Please visit the RealPoetik website if you have trouble viewing the image in this email.* *Natasha Kessler* is a graduate student in the University of Nebraska's MFA program. She co-edits the online poetry journal *Strange Machine* and enjoys collaging when she is not poeming. Her poetry has appeared in *Plainsongs*, *Plains Song Review*, *Alligator Juniper*, *Sub-lit*, *Sugar House Review*, and *Grey Sparrow*. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FlowerBomb.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2391874 bytes Desc: not available URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Mar 13 16:31:20 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:31:20 -0500 Subject: [Realpoetik] ELISA GABBERT Message-ID: from The Self Unstable Crows can tell one human from another, but we are unable to distinguish among various crows. This is mischaracterized as a paradox. Humans may be racist, but crows can’t read, and robots can’t really dance. All species evolve toward overspecialization. If you find anything other than food or sex interesting, it’s signaling. § In a movie culture there is no play within the play. Writers hope for good actors, but when the acting is good you don’t notice the writing. The audience wants immersion, not realism; realism is no more immersive than reality, and no more a genre. If truth is a sliding scale, one must test the extremes. § A paragraph is a way of saying one thing over and over again. Books are an act of supreme redundancy. What’s the difference between ambivalence and ambiguity? POV. § You lose naïveté before you gain wisdom. In the interim, you believe that everything is about sex. Your dreams are given to obvious motifs: the motif of your blows falling weak and ineffectual, glancing off the enemy. The motif of the foreign airport, being unable to pack, having nothing to wear. In dreams, even sex is symbolic of sex. All art is conceptual. *Elisa Gabbert* is the poetry editor of *Absent *and the author of *The French Exit* (Birds, LLC) and *Thanks for Sending the Engine* (Kitchen Press). Her poems have appeared in *Colorado Review,* *Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Pleiades, **Salt Hill, *and *Sentence, *among other journals, and her nonfiction has appeared in *Mantis, Open Letters Monthly, *and *The Monkey & The Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics*. She currently lives in Boston and blogs at The French Exit (http://thefrenchexit.blogspot.com/). -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Mar 20 11:44:01 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:44:01 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] BRIAN FOLEY Message-ID: MOON ABOVE THE LAW what we dress slow what erases it we may know each on our own companionship acquainted with what costs most is no longer not at fault like the moon things happen only once in *Brian Foley* is the author of the chapbooks *The Constitution* (Horseless Press, 2011) & *The Black Eye* (Brave Men Press, 2010). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in *Boston Review*, *Springgun*, *Action Yes*, * Saltgrass*, *Columbia Poetry Journal*, *Poor Claudia*, & elsewhere. He curates the jubilat reading series in Amherst, MA, and co-runs Brave Men Press. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Mar 27 09:39:42 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:39:42 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] BRIAN FOLEY [Part Two] Message-ID: CREELEY EYE in the former place the sun stands my calluses fall off just an hour from darkless dumb impersonates calm with a conversation feel the eye that puckers at mine the eye one half my own fault ** * Brian Foley is the author of the chapbooks The Constitution (Horseless Press, 2011) & The Black Eye(Brave Men Press, 2010). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Springgun, Action Yes, Saltgrass, Columbia Poetry Journal, Poor Claudia, & elsewhere. He curates the jubilat reading series in Amherst, MA, and co-runs Brave Men Press. * -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: