The Waiting
give me any lyre-like thing I’m on my knees what I’m on my knees * the swamp I move through careful your own drowning is at hand * presume breath & you will always be disappointed presume death & … Read More
Singing School Valediction
A scarlet breeze buoyed him next to us, his white feather hair a boy’s, giddy and bright for this, what he called, “the immaculate air.” It never crossed my mind the wind could be fostered down to such a … Read More
Prayer for Something Like a Home
Let me learn to love this land, the lay of the highways, the maze of crooked one-ways cobbled together in colonial haste. Give me a place to linger, to wait for sirens to drown in distance, for wind to … Read More
Admit Everything: Everything Broken Up Dances by James Byrne (Tupelo Press, 2015); Admit One: An American Scrapbook by Martha Collins (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
Everything Broken Up Dances, James Byrne’s third collection of poetry (and the first one published by an American press), opens with the author’s birth, a dislocation magnified by the sudden influx of pop culture: “Star Wars premiered as they … Read More
Self-Portraiture, Family History, and the Lyric: One Hundred Hungers by Lauren Camp (Tupelo Press, 2016) and Weston’s Unsent Letters to Modotti by Chad Parmenter (Tupelo Press, 2015)
One Hundred Hungers, Lauren Camp’s third book of poems, won the 2015 Dorset Prize, selected by David Wojahn. In this lush collection, Camp evokes her father’s family history in Baghdad and her relationship to Jewish-Arabic culture, particularly its language … Read More
The Service
I’d just as soon cut his throat as watch him take one more step toward the mall. All things being equal. All things are not equal, so I’ll wait here until he comes back out and hope he’s one … Read More
Salamander Reading at Mass Poetry Festival, Sunday, May 1st: Beth Woodcome Platow, Simeon Berry, Valerie Duff
Please join us for a Salamander Reading at the Mass Poetry Festival, Sunday, May 1st, 10:15-11:15 a.m., featuring Beth Woodcome Platow, Simeon Berry, and Salamander’s poetry editor Valerie Duff Old Town Hall, 2nd fl, Derby Square, Salem, MA
David Ferry Reading at Suffolk on April 25, 7 p.m.
DAVID FERRY will be reading on Monday, April 25, 2016, at 7 pm, in the Suffolk University Amenities Room, 73 Tremont Street, 1st floor, Boston (one block from the Park Street T) David Ferry’s most recent book of poems, Bewilderment … Read More
Suffolk Poetry Center: Jennifer Barber & Lisa Sewell, Weds, Apr 20, 7 p.m.
A poetry reading by Lisa Sewell, author of Impossible Object (Tenth Gate Prize, 2014) and Jennifer Barber, author of Works on Paper (Tenth Gate Prize, 2015), introduced by Leslie McGrath, series editor, and co-hosted by Nancy White, president, The Word … Read More
Salamander at the AWP Bookfair in Los Angeles
Salamander will be at the 2016 Bookfair at the AWP Conference in L.A. Our table is #634. West Hall A/B Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa Street. We look forward to seeing you there.
Poetry Reading March 23: Melissa Green and Meg Tyler
Poets Melissa Green and Meg Tyler will be reading at the Suffolk University Poetry Center at 7 p.m. on March 23rd. The Poetry Center is located at 73 Tremont Street (entrance around back on Tremont Place).