American Poets Reading 2003
Thursday, March 6, 2003
American Poets Reading
Traci Dant, Duriel Harris, Patricia McMillen, and Andrew Zawacki
American Poets Reading
Traci Dant, Duriel Harris, Patricia McMillen, and Andrew Zawacki
I come
from a family
that twice names
its own.
One name
for the world.
– Traci Dant, “A Twice Named Family”
Gilded, the jaw forgets
fracture at the pointer’s tip
(red jaw, forgotten rings
inadvertent discord, picked up,
thrown into anger). To say
I feel like breaking something
– Duriel Harris, “self portrait in relief”
Listen to Patricia McMillen read her poem, “Fill ‘Er Up” on GLT’s Poetry Radio⇒
If it be warfare, let it be mistress
and midnight up that slope,
not reticent in a weather
of withdrawal, its salmon-roe tint,
the shabby grass it grazes
– Andrew Zawacki, “Any Other Eviction, Than The Frequent”
