i.e. Reader

Out from Narrow House publishers is the i.e. Reader, featuring poets who have appeared in the i.e. reading series in Baltimore.

It was my good fortune to read in the series with D.C. friends Beth Joselow and Phyllis Rosenzweig back in October of 2007 at the Carriage House, a great venue for poetry or music, hidden up one of those many Baltimore alleyways that THE WIRE seems not to know about. You can see photos from that event below.

The Reader features such poets as Rosmarie Waldrop, Rod Smith, Buck Downs, Charles Bernstein, Heather Fuller, Bruce Andrews, Norma Cole, John Yau, Peter Gizzi, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and a host of others.

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Typically for me, I contributed a poem that I did not read in the i.e. series:

". . . and i followed her to the station"

This suitcase intends

A world

Broke at the clasp

Grasp

World gone wrong

These rails portend

A done wrong life

Th ese unintended

Blues stones

In my passway

Cinders rasp

In my draw

Rail against the night

Smokestack steel strings

Open tuning

Bottle up and go

She gone

What I loved well

Booked

In the wake

Her train

Black rain

Conveyance

To freezing ties

Blinding

Binding

Dry ice