1. Transit of Venus
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
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2. Transit of Venus
The actors mill about the party saying rhubarb
because other words do not sound like conversation.
In the kitchen, always, one who's just discovered
beauty, his mouth full of whiskey and strawberries.
He practices the texture of her hair with his tongue;
in her, five billion electrons pop their atoms. Rhubarb
in electromagnetic loops, rhubarb, rhubarb, the din
increases.
http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20668
3. Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's first collection
of poems, Black Swan (University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2002), won the 2001
Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her work has
appeared in African American Review,
Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review,
Rattapallax, Shenandoah, the Women’s
Review of Books, and other journals, as
well as in anthologies Bum Rush the
Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Role Call, The
Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, and
Common Wealth. Currently at work on a
second collection of poems, Open
Interval, she is an assistant professor of
English at Cornell University.
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/lyrae_van_cliefstefanon/index.shtml
4. National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of
poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The
concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media
— to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic
heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic
range and concern.
