Tag Archives: Nancy Issenman

From May 2022, The La Romita 2020 Online Poetry Community’s Kaminsky Prompt Poems – Part Two

August 30, 2022 – 6:13 pm

REMAIN SILENT (With thanks to Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic) Deafness passes through us like a police whistle Dogs understand everything and bark and bark Ilya Kaminsky from the poem Alfonso Stands Answerable from Deaf Republic, Graywolf Press, 2019 Teaching Dwight Not to bark when he sees Not to bark when he hears As a service […]

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From May 2022, The La Romita 2020 Online Poetry Community’s Kaminsky Prompt Poems – Part One

August 28, 2022 – 8:07 pm

For Ukraine, Listen You are alive, I whisper to myself, therefore something in you listens — Ilya Kaminsky from the poem Alfonso, In Snow from Deaf Republic You tell me you don’t recognize your life that you hear even fear is prohibited so you hold yours close. You are running, always running,  away from all […]

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The 2020 Recovering Words’ Virtual La Romita Poetry Retreat!!! Covid- 19 Kiboshed the On-Site Umbrian Version So We Meet Online Instead!

June 18, 2020 – 11:18 pm

A Cento by Nancy Issenman Say Yes Sniff the naked page It is time to praise! white ash, sassafras so beautiful on the tongue waves of language across the skin (makes) all the world a page I have to say yes. I can smell this poem as one layer devours the next your calligraphic hand […]

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