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Double Windlass
Khadijah Queen
After Pizarnik & McMorris
After Pizarnik & McMorris
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under volcanic moonshadow |
double twilight entablature -- took |
the honeycomb infatuates |
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city moss in lateral sail |
chapels bees grotto— whitelit |
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a sibilant invocation-- |
on dawn’s broad summit |
a glad populace afar a whole-mouthed sea |
Khadijah Queen is the author of five books, most recently I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books 2017). Her verse play Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press 2015) won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women's Performance Writing, which included a full staged production at Theaterlab NYC in 2015. Individual poems and prose appear in Poetry, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks from Vietnam to Iraq and widely elsewhere. She is Assistant Professor of creative writing at University of Colorado, Boulder, and core faculty in poetry for the Mile-High MFA at Regis University.
The Art
“Cipher” by Jesica carson davis. Ballpoint pen on ribbon attached to geoboard.
8’’ x 8''
2018
Jesica Carson Davis's work has appeared in The Laurel Review, Storm Cellar, Stoneboat, Zone 3, Columbia Poetry Review, and other places. She studied poetry at the University of Illinois, worked as a typesetter for the University of Chicago Press, and was the final Alice Maxine Bowie Fellow at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She's currently working on several manuscripts of poetry and an ongoing project making poemboxes, which sculpturally interpret her words. Jesica lives in Denver, where she works remotely as a technical writer for a software company. Find more at jesicacarsondavis.net.
About the work: Carson Davis lays with the intersection of the written word and sculpture in her Cornell-inspired poemboxes. This piece “Cipher” combines extracts from her poem “Cipher” with a thin ribbon and a grid to create a dialogue between language and form.
About the work: Carson Davis lays with the intersection of the written word and sculpture in her Cornell-inspired poemboxes. This piece “Cipher” combines extracts from her poem “Cipher” with a thin ribbon and a grid to create a dialogue between language and form.
