Thursday, April 19, 2001
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
with
Mark Tardi
57th Street Books
She learned the meaning of industry
From Sunday school sermons on
Protestant virtue,
the third little pig,
the spider not the fly,
and the squirrel putting up supplies
for the barren season–
– Nina Corwin, “Lady Sisyphus”
Broadside of “Lady Sisyphus” by Nina Corwin.
Buy this broadside in the Mixed Bags Series⇒
Conceived under a whore’s moon, no doors
on our seventh house, we wear our bodies uneasily
as if our skins shrunk in the drying cycle,
walk both sides of yellow lines
or sit at the edges of chairs, one tooth loose,
the new one pushing close behind.
– Nina Corwin, “Inhabitants of the Cusp”
Continue reading this poem⇒
Read this post-interview piece on Nina Corwin from Fifth Wednesday Journal:
http://www.fifthwednesdayjournal.com/an-interview-with-nina-corwin/
Incision to be scheduled in bull’s-eye red.
Enchanted scalpels side-by-side,
line up to make the cut un-kind.
They come to fetch (clip-clop) in step.
– Nina Corwin, “Ligamentary, My Dear”
Continue reading this poem⇒
Watch Nina Corwin read her poem “Variations on a Theme by Pablo Neruda” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra:
Original poem performed on a program with the Chicago Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. From The Uncertainty of Maps (2011). On this Sunday afternoon, I had the wonderful opportunity to perform 3 poems along with the narration for Benjamin Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
More info on Nina Corwin⇒
