From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Mon Jun 4 13:06:59 2012 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 16:06:59 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] KRYSIA ORLOWSKI Message-ID: [image: Inline image 1] -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Krysia2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 76646 bytes Desc: not available URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Jun 17 06:59:44 2012 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:59:44 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] JOANNA PENN COOPER Message-ID: SEIZE THE DAY I wrote a poem to tell you expressly that I’ve always been alone in here one vertebra cocked to the side to listen to the painful singing especially when I’ve slept on my stomach, a pillow on my head, my preferred posture. How is this helpful? How is this new? How is being trapped in my own ever-evolving mental healthfulness bound to assist anyone else on their journey? Well, a journey of a thousand miles, I always say. Anyway, axis mundi, I always say. This is how it begins: I call goodbye to someone in the hallway who doesn’t know what I’m saying because all my words before noon are plaintive music and he says something normal that I can’t hear without my glasses on and leaves. I continue my day from in bed by bandying about some regrets about an essay on *The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym* I didn’t write. When I’m finished doing that, I hear a door squeaking so I put on pants to better fight. I scrabble about under the bed with my pointy fingers to find my glasses. Suddenly I am vertical in the hallway. I have quite literally put up my dukes. I offer you this advice free of charge. You’re welcome. *Joanna** Penn Cooper is the author of the chapbook Mesmer (dancing girl press). Her full-length poetry collection, How We Were Strangers, was a finalist for the Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. *Joanna*co-curates the Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn, where she lives, and keeps a blog at joannapenncooper.blogspot.com. * -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Jun 24 09:57:43 2012 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:57:43 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] AMBER NELSON Message-ID: *from* Birds of the World Unite Humboldt Penguin Meets Brown Pelican in the open air—noses into breath swim mighty & light—away into the dark Blyth’s Tragopan a bright beacon oranges of loss or rather of losing Keel-Billed Toucan yellow light sharpened against the branches *Amber Nelson* is the co-founder and poetry editor of the online journal and chapbook press alice blue review and alice blue books. Her first full-length book, *In Anima: Urgency* is forthcoming from Coconut Books (2013). -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: