Listen to Poems from Our June Issue |
Dear Reader,
At first glance the two poems in our June issue couldn’t seem more different. “My memory of you is a knife,” begins Jarod K. Anderson’s “Tending the Wound,” a short study of longing that’s as sharp as the image in its first line. Jared Harél’s playful “Ode to Middle School Band” captures an audience’s mix of trepidation and pride at a school concert. (Anyone who’s watched a group of kids perform will know the feeling.) Though the poems’ tones are quite dissimilar, at the heart of both are emotions many of us will recognize. If you’d like to hear the authors read their work, click the Listen buttons below.
Take care and read well,
Nancy Holochwost, Associate Editor
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My memory of you is a knife // with no sheath, / heavy as November in my pocket. |
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All shuffle into this stuffy / school gym to behold / the clumsy miracle of hands— / where to put them, how, when. |
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