I suggest listening to Tone Škrjanec read his poems in the Slovene while you read these English translations, for a delicious confluence of languages in your ears and mind. – Emily Wallis Hughes https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/A-View-of-Scenery-That-Evades-All-Laws-1.mp3 A View of Scenery That Evades All Laws I had lacy underpants lowered […]
Two Poems by Edmund Berrigan
Listen to Edmund Berrigan’s voice as you read his two poems, “Perseids and Leonids” and “Poem (after Chantal Akerman).” https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Perseids-and-Leonids.mp3 Perseids and Leonids What happened to me is that I turned red on the swing.I’ve never quite known what I’ve known then it’s gone. Among thousands constantly as we rocket to millionin my pockets […]
A Rusted Birdcage in an Otherwise Empty Field: Videopoem and Process Notes
https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/A-Rusted-Birdcage-in-An-Otherwise-Empty-Field.mp4 Process Notes “In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown in it.” ― Edmond Jabès I have written elsewhere about the videopoetry form: its potential to reconnect poetry back to the body & the breath, and the ways […]
Three Poems from Mare’s Nest
https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-Last-Porch-Sit.mp3 Click play to listen to Holly read her poems to you The Last Porch Sit Chair They’re not bedsores if it’s not a bed Spoonfed I feel dolled & nightmare about a piebald suit of old curtains I Dread The afterparts When they’ll weep how good I was Undecorated […]
