Muench, Simone 2003; 2010; 2014; 2017
with Jenny Boully
In this mouth I gather darkness, an aria,
rosewater tongue, tympanic bone,
a poem more quiet than quietness,
a bronze song, something undone, salvia,
a crushed butterfly.
– Simone Muench, “Elegy for the Unsaid”
Broadside of “Elegy for the Unsaid” by Simone Muench, “Try” by Jennifer Grotz, and “burdens” by Quraysh Ali Lansana
Listen to Simone Muench’s 2014 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series:
we were movie stars
who never entered the frame.
we were green and gone
lisping “o” words in the air:
ode, odalisque, obituary.
– Simone Muench, “Orange Girl Suite [excerpt]”
Roger Reeves, Simone Muench, and Jason Koo at the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series, August 29, 2014.
More & more I see the human form,
a nothingness which longs to be the sea.
Lives infinitely repeated down to atomic thinness
like footfalls in a strange house.
– Simone Muench, “Wolf Cento”
Listen to Simone Muench’s 2010 reading with Jenny Boully at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Muench begins at 28:25 minutes.
Read an interview with Simone Muench from Newcity Lit:
The Great and Royal Animal Within: An Interview with Simone Muench
Interview with Simone Muench about her new collection of poems, “Wolf Centos”.
