Ann Stephenson ~ Wirework
Taut, thoughtful ruminations on the smell of friends and evaporating streets.
—Byron Coley and Thurston Moore
Arthur Magazine, 2007
POEM
Night is what you are fit for.
They want your personal history,
the cast of characters.
They want your manifesto.
Give an electron to a molecule,
one that drops anchor
in the stream of your mouth.
Space speaks
but has lately been vacated.
You should have read the notices
as a spirit-wounded child.
My work is done.
Let’s kiss and be agreeable.
POEMS:
Ann Stephenson
~ DIA: Readings in Contemporary Poetry
BLOTTER
Win, lose or draw, this is some sloppy dream world
With no flowerbeds to play in, no attic to vacuum
What won’t we do for entertainment
I skate to work on my laurels
Trees print out my shadow
My work requires an aerial view of the region
The ceiling in stars
I calculate the rate of their fall
Sabu implicates me, he is deep
My mind must be preserved
Certain others stop spinning
Teens especially have difficulty focusing on one spot
WIREWORK — Ann Stephenson
Printed in an edition of 300 copies, 2006.
$10.00
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ann Stephenson’s publications include Wirework (2006), Adventure Club (2013), and The Poles (2017). Some of her poems have appeared in Across the Margin, Brooklyn Rail, Delineator, Ladowich, The Recluse, and Sal Mimeo, as well as the anthology Like Musical Instruments: 83 Contemporary American Poets (2014). She is the founder and editor of Tent Editions. She received her MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 2007, and curated the Ready Set Readings series at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta in 2009–10. Stephenson is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Poetry (2017). She was born and raised in Georgia and lives between New York City’s East Village and Fire Island.
Printed in an edition of 300 copies, 2006.
$10.00
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ann Stephenson’s publications include Wirework (2006), Adventure Club (2013), and The Poles (2017). Some of her poems have appeared in Across the Margin, Brooklyn Rail, Delineator, Ladowich, The Recluse, and Sal Mimeo, as well as the anthology Like Musical Instruments: 83 Contemporary American Poets (2014). She is the founder and editor of Tent Editions. She received her MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 2007, and curated the Ready Set Readings series at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta in 2009–10. Stephenson is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Poetry (2017). She was born and raised in Georgia and lives between New York City’s East Village and Fire Island.