Tag Archives: Confessional Poetry

SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: CAROLE BERNSTEIN

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

By Carole Bernstein: PASTORAL Sunny with the intensity of dream. Huge balloony graffiti covered the stone wall at the end of Avenue M, where Iris Bloom took me to smoke a joint and we cut Orchestra, second period. Avenue M—was … Continue reading →

SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: NICKY BEER

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

By Nicky Beer: DEAR BRUCE WAYNE, My parents are dead, too. A dirty, self-cannibalizing Gotham— I also claim it, its city limits built by my skin. I slough and slough, but the city remains. Tell me, if you’d watched your … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ANDREA SHERWOOD

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

BLACKOUT By Andrea Sherwood I lived a year in a small black box under a barbershop some nights not even an inch of moonshine would sit on the windowsill the room purgatory with no objects no thing save the thick dark … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ERRIC EMERSON

Posted on August 4, 2018 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

By Erric Emerson: MOTHERLESS If I try eyes-shut hard; recall the misty likeness of a stretcher and air mask, a trailer lined with ice-fangs in Napanoch, a red ball I worshipped at three years old. How your legacy sits in … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: RHIANNON CONLEY

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

MURMUR by Rhiannon Conley “Did You Know? You can swim through the aorta of a blue whale.” I watched as two children swam, their soft hands like fins pushing themselves out of the open chamber of the imagined whale’s red … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: LAURA READ

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

RIP, LAURA’S VAGINA By Laura Read Your vagina is beginning to devitalize, the doctor explained, when I asked him why I had had so many urinary tract infections lately. The first thing I thought was that I should say No, … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: DEEP CALLS TO DEEP

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

From DEEP CALLS TO DEEP By Jane Medved: WINTER BURIAL For the sky that reaches into its hushed pocket, for the bridle of winter waiting to be released. For the ghost face which slips over everyone, for the tusk of … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: RACHEL HEIMOWITZ

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

REFRESH By Rachel Heimowitz We raise them in lemons, in buttercream, in cornmeal, we cut the crust off every loaf and serve blueberries to those who can’t abide the crumbs. We let them ride our arms like cowboys, and when … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: HALA ALYAN

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

IN JERUSALEM By Hala Alyan Forgetting something doesn’t change it. In Jerusalem a man blocked the door in front of a hostel to tell me to unpin my hair. I did, but then kept the story from anyone for years. … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: LITTLE CLIMATES

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

From Little Climates By L. A. Johnson: EPISTEMOLOGY I never had quiet times in the kitchen making an icebox cake. I never inspected the back of the box, folded wafers up with cream. In the morning, you fix whatever needs … Continue reading →

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