National Poetry Month : Amish Trivedi,

FANTASMA

The world is wash, burn victim a grief beset without

antecedent. The ground is what follows, a measure

in a space of abstraction that does its best not to

calculate the ways in which the body’s cancers

reflect outward. Poaching: murder by every other name,

that which remains seated so deeply that to negate

is to negate everything, each artifice. Anything

that can be used to soak up, to suture, expunge:

the parallel motion of the mirror hides what’s

trying to hide already.

Amish Trivedi is the author of Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed and Sound/Chest. He has an MFA from Brown and a PhD from Illinois State. 

Michael Bryson essay, rob mclennan interview and essay, Amanda Earl review, and Pearl Pirie chapbooks

rob mclennan is interviewed over at 'poets touching trees,' Michael Bryson has a short essay posted in the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter, Amanda Earl reviews Sina Queyras' latest poetry collection over at her blog, rob mclennan answers Amish Trivedi's "Where Do You Write, My Lovely?" and Pearl Pirie has been publishing a mound of chapbooks lately, including these, this one and this other one. See how active and exciting our authors are?