Poetry - The Curator Magazine (Page 51)

Grease Poet

Oct 22, 2014 1 min read Poetry

Carl the mechanic was the first poet I ever met— livin’ at home takin’ a few classes at the local CC I think us younger guys in the neighborhood kinda looked up to

The Girl Who Liked Scary Movies

Oct 9, 2014 1 min read Poetry

She was seven when I was twelve. She was clever when I was water. She took baths when I took showers. She was X when I was the Science Patrol. Her green Crayola

Glass Forest

Sep 25, 2014 1 min read Poetry

after Glass Forest installation by Dale Chihuly in collaboration with James Carpenter, 1971 A glass tree falls in an empty room, perceived to be a forest of creatable light. No one is there

Why Pick the Old Bones?

Sep 19, 2014 5 min read Film & Television Poetry

Like many good curators, Sir Walter Scott was a creative falsifier with a rich sense of his own license. Many of us know him by reputation rather than by reading, but The Minstrelsy

Spider

Sep 18, 2014 1 min read Poetry

While waiting for the coffee to quit its dripping, I lean stupefied against the door frame, my body purblind to the sunrise. During the night (perhaps hoping for the big catch), a spider