U.S.A. Long Stairs That boats might set toward other pooled nests in which to precise the new, the small company proceeds historic visits; midair apartments saying small to their own demise, the dining table yields slight conversations, concerned for no…
Category: Poetry
Poetry: 2011 Chapbook Prize Finalists
This month we feature work from our five finalists for the 2011 Omnidawn Chapbook Competition: Brian Foley – Totem Hugo Garcia Manriquez – All Civilians Nicholas Gulig – Ecotone Megan Pruiett – The Naught Book M.A. Vizsolyi – Notes on…
Poetry: Elizabeth Robinson
from “The Woman in White” which will be published in THREE NOVELS coming in Fall 2011 from Omnidawn Whence the plot’s precipice folds over, an envelope from which more secret still, the ghost falls Shoved Likewise, no asylum Treasure hidden beneath…
Poetry: Aaron Shurin
HELIOS CREAM Wiped it out, just wiped out the desk — scaffolding dismantled — in the helios cream of 9 A.M. — ornament air — if air could shower or flood — wiped out the cylinder seals, the belligerent calculator,…
Poetry: Sohrab Sepehri (translated by Kazim Ali with Mohammad Jafar Mahallati)
The complete poem Water’s Footfall is available as a chapbook, including primary language and complete translator’s note here.
Poetry: Omnidawn Book Prize Finalists
Rob Schlegel Jane Gregory Lily Ladewig Juliana Leslie John Myers
Poetry: Susanne Dyckman
56.57 what looks like rest or thought is wait sitting on a wooden slat what looks like seeing is a world away my fixed pause the point, time — where or how to sleep New York City
Poetry & Art: George Albon & Erik Waterkotte
George Albon’s Brief Capital of Disturbances has been blessed with some multidisciplinary offspring. Composer Mischa Salkind-Pearl has used it as a text in his piece “American Temple” (See the Omnidawn entry of April 6, 2009), and now artist Erik Waterkotte has…
Poetry: Jaime Robles
Under the earth —After x-rays taken of the Staffordshire hoard, Anglo Saxon Britain c. a.d. 700–800 like the wings of moths, outstretched crumpled stacked
Poetry: Ewa Chrusciel
Triangular Sketches N 1 I The drawing of foxes, the tentacles of earth. Whisper the cliffs. Pivot verticalities. Lumens. What Light admits. Let there be 4 & 6. Earth is air. News of luminous itineraries slide into shards, debris, annun…