It’s an easy puzzle of veneer,
tiled teeth, a pimp’s smack
and click as he bends her neck nearly
off, her cheek in his mantis hands
holding a bruised plum.
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writings, musings, poetry from the south shore of the north coast
About Me
- Amy
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Author of poetry collection serious red (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1996) and a limited edition called queen of cups (Burning Press, 1993). Essays in Ordering the Storm (CSU Poetry Center) and elsewhere. Poems published in American Poetry Review, Barn Owl Review, Hobble Creek Review, Whiskey Island, DMQ Review, Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, wicked alice, ArtCrimes, Harpur Palate, Gargoyle (#53), mirage period(ical), Taproot, Cleveland Slam Anthology, and others I can't remember or lost track of. Published in several Cleveland anthologies. Received two Ohio Arts Council individual fellowships and a memorable residency at Headlands Center for the Arts. Used to slam with the big boys. Live on a great lake, held in abeyance.
Links, Poetics, Friends, etc.
- Academy of American Poets
- Ahsahta Press
- Akron Series in Poetry
- Amy Casey
- Azure Stained Glass
- Bar Cento
- Barn Owl Review
- bee and flower
- bibliodyssey
- Black Arrow Press
- Black Ocean Press
- Book of Marvels
- bookslut
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- clevelandpoetics
- CSU Poetry Center
- cutbank
- De Pool Hall
- diagram
- Dixiedreams
- DMQ Review
- Dodie Bellamy
- electronic poetry center
- Erin O'Brien's Owner's Manual for Human Beings
- enablers
- Feeding Maybelle
- Front Room Gallery
- Gargoyle Magazine
- GOOD magazine
- Harpur Palate
- Harriet
- Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson
- Hobble Creek Review
- How a Poem Happens
- Jana Russ
- Jason Venner
- Jen Sullivan
- Jewell in Budapest
- John Gallaher
- Jon Cudo
- Josaphat Arts Hall
- Judy Brandon
- Kenyon Review
- Kicking Wind
- Kristen Baumlier
- Kristy Bowen
- The Lit (the bar)
- The Lit (for writers)
- local food
- Mary Biddinger
- Matthea Harvey
- Meagan Call
- Michael Salinger
- Mike DeCapite
- Nathaniel Parsons
- National Poetry Review
- NEO Master of Fine Arts
- Nin Andrews
- No Feeling of Falling
- Octopus
- Pen in Hand
- Phil Metres
- Poetic Asides
- Poetry Daily
- Poetry Foundation
- rain taxi
- Rick Strong
- Rob Jewell
- Ron Silliman
- Sara Tracey
- Sarah Willis
- Slow Food Northern Ohio
- switchback books
- Tri-C
- Typo
- Verse Daily
- Whiskey Island
- wicked alice
- Wick Poetry Center
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1 comment:
in his mantis hands
!!
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