Alexis Rhone Fancher and Cynthia Atkins’s Duets Duets by Alexis Rhone Fancher and Cynthia Atkins is the result of a friendship and collaboration between the two poets. Each of them responded to Fancher’s photography and the result is a collection that captures the anxiety and inward-turning that we, or at least I, have felt over …
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For this fifty-seventh post in the Poets on Craft series, we have Nathan Spoon and Cynthia Atkins. Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a …
“Nature is a haunted house— but Art—is a house that tries to be haunted.” – Emily Dickinson (epigraph of Cynthia Atkins’s “House And Home,” Still-Life With God) In her intense and inventively lyrical third book of poetry, Cynthia Atkins explores the houses that nature creates and humans too often desecrate, starting with the body. If …
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A Goddess in Purple Rain Behind glass, a lady is lit-up inside the laundromat. She’s folding sheets, pink curlers of baroque in her hair, singing and creasing a t-shirt with sequins. Her arms and hips stretch out to a body of air—the room filling with sound. And I am humming inside her—inside her body, burning …
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Mirror, Mirror “I am a collection of dismantled almosts”–Anne Sexton There is a parcel of land where everything is true in reverse. Ribbon-cutting ceremony into the Mayor’s grave plot, where Nana Ida is a shopper putting on her lipstick, shade 53, Maui in the Moonlight–Setting sail after the war of ideas. We’re all headed …
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