Suzanne Frischkorn's Blog, page 9
May 17, 2014
Summer Readings
I'm looking forward to reading here:
Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens, The Rose Garden Reading, University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, CT, June 14, 12PM, with Charles Rafferty
And here:
New York City Poetry Festival, Governor's Island, Colonel's Row, July 26, Time TBA, Poets from Dire Literary Series: Suzanne Frischkorn, Teisha Dawn Twomey, Charles Coe, Eric Nelson
Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens, The Rose Garden Reading, University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, CT, June 14, 12PM, with Charles Rafferty
And here:
New York City Poetry Festival, Governor's Island, Colonel's Row, July 26, Time TBA, Poets from Dire Literary Series: Suzanne Frischkorn, Teisha Dawn Twomey, Charles Coe, Eric Nelson
February 2, 2014
Lovely and Surprise Review of Red Paper Flower
Over at Michael's blog: here
November 18, 2013
Terrain's Elemental Issue
Yay! I have two poems reprinted in Terrain's new Elemental Issue! "My Body as a Communist Country" first appeared in Copper Nickel, and "My Body as the Tropicana Nightclub, 1952" first appeared in North American Review.
September 6, 2013
August 22, 2013
Clair de lune
Claude Debussy gets honoured with Google Doodle
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July 22, 2013
[Suggestion] | Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America, by Tony Hoagland | Harper's Magazine
[Suggestion] | Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America, by Tony Hoagland | Harper's Magazine
July 17, 2013
The Lives of Lorine Niedecker by Hannah Brooks-Motl
The Lives of Lorine Niedecker by Hannah Brooks-Motl
March 24, 2013
Anti- Feature 102
Gillian Devereux
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March 15, 2013
NewBorder Interview with Rigoberto Gonzalez
Yes, these snubs are frustrating and sometimes maddening, but I take great comfort in knowing that we have not stopped writing just because the Pulitzer prize committee hasn’t given us a bone. Because that’s not why we write. We are not here to please a mostly-white institution. If New York never notices, it’s New York’s loss, but it’s only a matter of time before it catches up to the cultural
February 11, 2013
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
On the stiff twig up there
Hunches a wet black rook
Arranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain-
I do not expect a miracle
Or an accident
To set the sight on fire
In my eye, nor seek
Any more in the desultory weather some design,
But let spotted leaves fall as they fall
Without ceremony, or portent.
Although, I admit, I desire,
Occasionally, some backtalk
From the mute sky, I can't
Hunches a wet black rook
Arranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain-
I do not expect a miracle
Or an accident
To set the sight on fire
In my eye, nor seek
Any more in the desultory weather some design,
But let spotted leaves fall as they fall
Without ceremony, or portent.
Although, I admit, I desire,
Occasionally, some backtalk
From the mute sky, I can't
