Bernadette Mayer

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“ bernadette mayer & anne waldman at naropa :)
photo by Rebecca Bush
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Now, that’s how you wear a bandana.
(Last year’s winner of the 2015 Firecracker Award for poetry, Bernadette Mayer, with the similarly legendary Anne Waldman...

We Eat Out Together

My heart is a fancy place
Where giant reddish-purple cauliflowers
& white ones in French & English are outside
Waiting to welcome you to a boat
Over the low black river for a big dinner
There’s alot of choice among the foods
Even a tortured lamb served in pieces
En croute on a plate so hot as a rack
Of clouds blown over the cold filthy river
We are entitled to see anytime while we
Use the tablecovers to love each other
Publicly dishing out imitative luxuries
To show off poetry’s extreme generosity
Then home in the heart of a big limousine

John Ashbery

  The New Spirit (excerpt) I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave a...