“Eroica”
~ remembering Stanisław Barańczak & his poem “Eroica”
~ “…holding a flagstaff, pushing a pram…”
~ Ukraine
“To seize one’s fate by the throat”
(Beethoven). But also to
feel …
Poetry
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Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
-after francine j. harris and with Eileen
The symphony was a straitjacket
I must’ve needed. Need being relative—
the organ pipes (silver) looked like missiles,
that bright and tipped. The blue … -
August at Oceti, One Year Later
Standing Rock, 2017
Crawl beyond barbed wire. Stand in the place you stood,
where you burned your fingers on the barely-liveembers of the Sacred Fire’s final night, looked
at … -
To ghost is to stay.
grieving gets its discipline done,
that’s who’s not gone’s abiding
rehearsal—biding’s ghost shit,
right? supernatch: cabinets,
corridors, doors soon rapped at;
chill heavy in grim, dim scenes;
bleak dispatches bleed … -
City of
City of ghosts. City of dead cars. City of nah to the songs
that say blah, blah, blah. Is this what I get
when my father’s dead. Is this what … -
Ode To the Bus Terminal
they come to pay respects like devotees
and offer libations for seat numbers at your kiosk windows
and you grant them not just a gate
but even a time of … -
Prest Street
It’s all uncles and cousins, proud black men
of urban banter in a small backyard,
car parts in a strange box that stains. I watched
those rough hands rummage
through … -
Given To
“Exide Battery-Recycling Plant Contaminates 10,000 Homes in Poorest Los Angeles
Neighborhoods, Nets No Jail Time”
L.A. Times
If you are lucky in this life, only … -
Survivor’s Gift
Abu Bakr Sadiq Wins a 2024 Zócalo Poetry Prize Honorable Mention Award
Every year, we award the annual Zócalo Poetry Prize to the poem that best evokes a connection to place. Zócalo is pleased to recognize four …
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Bildungsroman
Yvanna Vien Tica Wins a 2024 Zócalo Poetry Prize Honorable Mention Award
Every year, we award the annual Zócalo Poetry Prize to the poem that best evokes a connection to place. Zócalo is pleased to recognize four …
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A Pill Bug Mutters Makeshift Myths
Tommy Vinh Bui Wins a 2024 Zócalo Poetry Prize Honorable Mention Award
Every year, we award the annual Zócalo Poetry Prize to the poem that best evokes a connection to place. Zócalo is pleased to recognize four …
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Fire Ants
Fatma Omar Wins a 2024 Zócalo Poetry Prize Honorable Mention Award
Every year, we award the annual Zócalo Poetry Prize to the poem that best evokes a connection to place. Zócalo is pleased to recognize four …