on C.D. Wright's Memorial
i.
cat has had
my tongue
since i came
upstairs
& up the elevator
to your auditorium
of Light
on Fifth Avenue
ii.
met the man
who translated
Alla Breve Loving
into Russian
iii.
cat had my tongue
since i walked
out
into a misted
humid New York
night
still
peeping, weeping,
into the un-seen
JL Jacobs
JL Jacobs, MFA, Brown
University, is the author of four volumes of poetry. She serves as editor/art
director for Abstract Magazine: Contemporary Expressions. Work
has appeared in numerous journals including Ploughshares, New
American Writing, and New Orleans Review. Representative
work is anthologized in American Poetry: The Next Generation,
Carnegie Mellon UP. She was a 2017 nominee for Poet Laureate of Oklahoma. She
studied with C.D. Wright, John Yau, and Keith Waldrop at Brown, and has
continued a mixed-media artist practice from teaching Poetry&Image at Brown
Learning Community to offering mixed-media workshops at OKC Literary Festivals.
Books include: Streets as Elsewhere ; Dream Songs; The Leaves in Her Shoes; Varieties
of Inflorescence.
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Poetry