No Help for That | Jackie Clark

The Rain-Robert Creeley All night the sound hadcome back again,and again fallsthis quiet, persistent rain. What am I to myselfthat must be remembered,insisted uponso often? Is it that never the ease,even the hardness,of rain fallingwill have for me something other than this,something not so insistent—am I to be locked in thisfinal uneasiness. Love, if you […]

It’s been a minute since I’ve been in this space, hi. Trying to reconnect, which must be something that I have tried to do before since I have a several year old playlist (meant to be listened to on shuffle) with the same name that I keep revisiting. I forgot to mention that back in […]

So, I’m doing a new thing. A monthly tinyletter about music, poetry, and living. You can subscribe here if you are interested. I also have a poem in the new issue of Fence. It feels nice to have something to feel excited about right now. It’s a real weird time right now.  Are you doing […]

We Lived Happily During the War And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth […]

Deconstruction I think the sirens in The Odyssey sang The Odyssey, for there is nothing more seductive, more terrible, than the story of our own life, the one we do not want to hear and will do anything to listen to. Mary Ruefle via pome  #seasonsgreetings

Happy to have participated in this online exhibition of Briget Heidmous’s minimalist photographs for GEORGIA gallery in Denver, run by poet and friend Sommer Browning. Participants were mailed a postcard of one of Heidmous’s photographs and asked to install it in an environment of their choosing. You can see all the installation photographs here. Can you […]

Octavi Serra via Colossal. To quote again from The Catholic Encyclopedia entry on despair, “the pusillanimous person has not so much relinquished trust in God, as he is unduly terrified at the spectacle of his own shortcomings or incapacity.” I am sometimes unduly terrified by my shortcomings, and I do not trust God. But at […]

The workshop that I taught at Wendy’s in the fall will be doing a reading at Wendy’s Subway on Friday, January 18 at 7pm. I really don’t know how to rely how great this workshop ended up being. It was just the right mix of participants, all of them thoughtful and generous in their work-shopping […]

I have two poems in the newest issue of The Tiny. You can read them here. Thanks to Gina Myers and Gabriella Torres for including them.

In November I will be teaching a four-week writing workshop at Wendy’s Subway.  Full description of the workshop is below. I am really excited to teach this workshop. Maybe you want to sign up? The Heart of the Matter: A Workshop for Writings in Progress Led by Jackie Clark Dates: Sundays November 4, 11, 18, […]