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Jordan Stempleman

Jordan Stempleman's recent collections of poetry include Doubled Over (BlazeVOX Books, 2009) and No, Not Today (Magic Helicopter Press, 2012). He co-edits The Continental Review, teaches writing and literature at the Kansas City Art Institute and curates A Common Sense Reading Series.

Recent Work

Causing an Impressed

Jordan Stempleman

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What's the worst of the cement truck, that unwifed / shape pouring out, airplane far off or the sanctuary / so unowned and immature? / As I...

“You do not walk around Las Vegas with a...

Jordan Stempleman

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There is a slab, unaware of what nerve gas / does, unstricken by what disappears / in the unequipped evening, and freakishly / easy to maintain....

from Back Room Poems

Jordan Stempleman

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Before the cannon was on the small side, / I knew just how comfortable / an explosion could sound. / / Magic begs us / not to call this...

Hammer Stuck

Jordan Stempleman

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A bull, heard over the intercom, makes a terrible / sound. It seems to be dying or aware / of some terrible situation. Between its buckings, /...

Agreed

Jordan Stempleman

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1,026 views

A mutual friend, who I don't trust / as much as you do, claimed / that god used to just blurt out, I love it, / love it, way back when...

Something Nearby

Jordan Stempleman

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I am not bothered by what I have in common / with revised laws that mask our language / as some sleepy instinct, such as bunching up our eyes /...

Fixed

Jordan Stempleman

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It's tough to steer the state penitentiary / in the county parade. / I like it when someone who has to be lying / is quoted as saying, “But...

Subscribed by Jordan Stempleman

DEAR CORPORATION, [aka Summer Lovin...

Adam Fell

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/ No one likes their first cigarette. / Any chaperone could tell you that. Any / chaperone could tell you: our peephole / hearts all look...

Warlord Subway Jam

Luke Bloomfield

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There's nothing I want more / than to rip pink apples / to give to a sick squid / glued to the rind of Hoboken / the leopard barge spurts flames ...

KINDLY

Ashley Capps

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/ There are cases where a fact cannot come at all / and a leaf falls / down in front of me / and I steal this leaf / because I need it / and...

Desire

Andy Stallings

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Lyric had positioned them there in the stadium / and as some who like to admire / whatever their children have built on the floor / they wished...

Books by Jordan Stempleman

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That's really kind of you to say. Thank you, Lisa.	Jordan Stempleman 08/20/10 8:04pm
Jordan, I really like your work. I'm new here on Ink Node but your voice is so unique and beautiful.	Lisa Marie Basile 08/20/10 7:29pm