March Featured Poet:Sarah Rosenthal
Sarah Rosenthal is the author of three chapbooks, not-chicago (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 1998),
sitings (a+bend Press, 2000), and How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin Press, 2001). She also teaches
creative writing to adults privately and through local universities. She is a
poet-in-residence for California Poets in the Schools and Kollage Community School for the Arts.
Recommended Books:
- Waiting for God, Simone Weil
- At the Sky’s Edge: Poems 1991-1996, Bei Dao
- Crossing the Water: Transitional PoemsSylvia Plath
- Point and Line, Thalia Field
- Richard II William Shakespeare
she's so tired
by Sarah Rosenthal
and so hungry
and she has to get up so early
and she must fly on a plane
and she must answer when called upon
and she must fit a size seven
and she must seek silence
and she has to perfume herself
she must say “flowers of wet blue corn bathing in the river”
she must name the device
she must continue
she must know the city
she must visit the country
she lays her head on polished wood
the saucepan promises to heat the packet
clouds crack up over their own joke
the wood lays its head on her ear
the laundry change collects
red asserts itself in splotches
invisible hands knead bread
nobody wants her name
why did you leave the room just then
paisley hangs in a dark closet
a tree is a different matter altogether
do not simply say flower
i want to know what this device is called
utensils are piled in a corner
the man who designed Strawberry Fields has died
i am a dot floating on a map
i am an orderly wheeling my patient
