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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Born in Long Beach, California and raised in Massachusetts, Evan Fleischer has written about William Faulkner’s maps for LitHub, Alasdair Gray’s sense of Glasgow for The New Yorker, explored a French translation of Groucho Marx’s memoir in The Paris Review, and is currently working as a fiction editor over at Hobart Pulp.
Poets Resist
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 18, 2019
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 18, 2019
Political Poem
There were people in the heart of Iowa organizing on their behalf,
because they are our countrymen and countrywomen. They’re us.
Boxes filled with donations were dropped off at the post office.
Fundraisers brought in cooks to make everyone plates of pasteles.
Someone likened the bioluminescence of Mosquito Bay to a forest
full of fireflies — and now that keeps coming to mind when I think
about the island. We need to talk about the island. We need to talk
about all these poems. “They want everything to be done for them,”
someone said in the middle of watching a racist morality play he wrote,
not even happy with something of his own creation. (And creation
is a gift.) Spotlights entered the houses on Calle De Cristo. “Ola?”
Plates of sugar are left out for the bees until the flowers bloom again.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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