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The photographer Shelby Lee Adams captures the people who live in a holler where he was raised in Hazard, Kentucky.
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December 2009
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Mute
The word
writ small
Under tongue
stashed tucked
Between teeth
sucked stuck
No not writ
small tall
Not writ
at all
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Paean*
Where did you find this day
How did you send it
Why did you search me out
How can I thank you
Immortal One?
* a paean is a jubilant song of praise, originally to Apollo
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Annie and Jack take me for a walk…
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August 2nd Nancy Knowles reads/sings from her...
“Knowles’ exceptionally beautiful soprano carried the evening in song and declaimed poetry…” —The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Continuing its SummerSundays concert series, Gyre Music presents Nancy Knowles (mezzosoprano, poet, visual artist) in a reading of her dramatic memoir The Girl in the Moon this Sunday, August 2 at 2:00pm in the Congregational Church in the...
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After all
the seeing’s
in the looking
You can look
look at art, really
look, take
the time
Who this, why that
yes but not Now
but Soon
Pff! Stop all this fussing!
Find some steady ground.
Plant your feet, head high.
Now, grab those ribs
pull, rip, tear that flesh
breasts asunder.
Call out to the world
gather them all around, close.
Hear their wheezing breath.
Smell their...
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Ancient Iridescence
I.
Buzzing brownly
she spits her memories
through the bones yonder
Meanwhile a refreshing capsize
saves his thoughts
from plunder.
II.
Furrowing browerly
determined to make her mark
she continues
as he shakes his head givinguply.
Gone already?
Thought we had
a lifetime mine at least
if not yours
or at least the
sweet overlap of the two
he muses handsomely.
III.
See? You...
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June 2009
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Dinner
do you know what I know below what she he says in no particular order thrumming the table all the while as if deep in thought but really just any which way? will do which is exactly what he does or says since no one is even listening (of course) he thinks
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