06/30/2011
Chris Shannon

Valerio Magrelli’s “I’ve often imagined gazes”

It’s as if his poems happen twice.
First as the bullet that pierces the skin;
second as the tracer whose flare
ribbons the dark with carmine.

Read Valerio Magrelli’s “I’ve often imagined gazes” at Poetry International >>


BIO:

Christopher Shannon’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Mid-American Review, and 32 Poems. A winner of a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, he has published reviews in the Germanic Review, and is the editor of Cellpoems.
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03/10/2011
'Archival Footage #30: Niagara Falls', Chris Shannon

05/05/2011
'John Poch’s “The Tongue”', Eric Smith

06/17/2011
'Michael Schiavo, “from The Mad Song”', Casey Thayer

SOME POEMS:

10/20/2009
'Your Honor', Charles Simic

04/05/2014
'Daffodil', Paulette Guerin

10/05/2009
'From a Collapsed Hay Bale', Colin Pope

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