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This week we welcome Cara Benson as our guest blogger. Cara is the author of two books of poetry: (made) (BookThug, 2010) and Protean Parade (Black Radish Books, 2012). Her chapbook "Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation" won the bpNichol Prize. Benson is an active committee member of the PEN Prison Writing Program and teaches poetry in a NY State Prison. Her poem "BANKING" was chosen from the Boston Review by Kevin Young for the 2011 Best American Poetry.
Welcome, Cara.
-- sdh
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
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Hi Cara, Some of these are on my list too. I always say I wish I had two lives - and one would be given solely to books.
Posted by: Emma Trelles | June 18, 2011 at 08:57 AM
I meant this for your summer reading post!
Posted by: Emma Trelles | June 18, 2011 at 09:09 AM