No Help for That | Jackie Clark

I am beyond excited that some new writing from a longer series entitled Trying was just published in The Brooklyn Rail.  You can read it here.    

I’m so happy to share the cover of my new chapbook forthcoming from dancing girl press! You can order a copy here. Much gratitude to Kristy Bowen, the sole proprietor of dancing girl press. She’s been at it for at least a decade and never seems to tire. Lucky for us!

image via Mary Corse. Deactivated my Facebook for a bit (forever?). Also, rekindling my love of Raymond Carver, bumped into this poem like an old friend: Romanticism The nights are very unclear here. But if the moon is full, we know it. We feel one thing one minute, something else the next. What else is […]

To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is […]

I’m late posting this news here but after 10 years I’ve decided to put my series Poets off Poetry/Song of the Week on an indefinite hiatus.  I wrote something to try to commemorate the moment. You can read it here. 10 years is a long time to do something and toward the end of 2017 the […]

Well, here we are, another year. They do seem to feel less eventful as they accumulate, don’t they? Or maybe they are eventful except they stop really feeling that way? Or maybe it’s just me? I forgot to tell you about some poems that got published in December. The Elephants, a new-ish press and journal, […]

via The Awl.

Sort of last minute to be posting here but I am reading tomorrow night for The New School After Hours, with fellow MFA alums and current MFA-ers. The reading is at KGB, all the way upstairs in the Red Room. The reading starts at 7pm.  Find more details here. Also, since I’ve last posted, two […]