Cherry Pickman lives in Brooklyn, New York. She’s at work on her first collection of poems.
Category Archives: Poetry
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May 16, 2011 – 7:20 am
Jean Hartig is a poet living in Brooklyn. Her chapbook, Ave, Materia, was published by the Poetry Society of America in 2009. Image: Pierre Bonnard, “La Cheminée” (“The Mantlepiece”), 1916
European Summer
April 4, 2011 – 7:31 am
Sommer in Europa Bären schleichen über gefrorenen Boden und kratzen an deiner Tür. Ihnen ist kalt und sie hören die Grille, die du um den Hals trägst. Gefangen in einem ausgehöhlten Kürbis. Immer auf deiner Haut. Warm und sicher. Ihr Zirpen erinnert dich an den Sommer. Die Enge und die Dunkelheit sind nur temporär, nur [...]
Borderlines
April 1, 2011 – 9:20 am
Hypergraph Fortress A concrete giant tied down on top of a blanketed cabinet of has-been and lest-we-remember. Deliberately blinded. Senses heightened through loss of others. Located far from eye, far from heart. Invisible through the trees, exposed to icy winds, bitten by frost. Mutilated and crippled, limbs removed. The limits of reduction pushed to extremes. [...]
Annoying Diabetic Bitch
March 16, 2011 – 12:44 pm
Sharon Mesmer and Connie Deanovich are both reading tonight, Wednesday March 16th at the Poetry Project. If you haven’t been to the Poetry Project, it is an awesome cultural institution, staffed entirely by poets, that was founded in the 1960′s. It is a gem hidden on St. Marks Place, which as of recently has swapped [...]
Roses are Red
March 9, 2011 – 10:18 am
Just as the weather starts to warm up a little, I am reminded of all of the things I love about Spring. New York City in the springtime is truly an amazing place, as everybody crawls out from their respective rocks they have been hiding under the whole winter and greets the world with happy [...]
Anne Sexton
March 6, 2011 – 3:09 pm
We posted a video by Nick Heavican on our site, which is a non-traditional take on what is quickly becoming a ubiquitous forum on the internet these days- the fashion video. I love the idea of a man reading the haunting Anne Sexton poem- she was one of the first female poets to talk about [...]
