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Jack Christian
Jack Christian is the author of the poetry collections Domestic Yoga (2016, Groundhog Poetry Press) and Family System, which received the 2012 Colorado Prize.
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Ode to Anxiety
Jack Christian
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Anxiety, you’re my friend and I welcome you. / Because I love the world and its uncertainty, / I love the world with you in it, / even when I…
The Pond
Jack Christian
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You skip enough stones the pond becomes a pile of stones. / // That’s the hovercraft we don’t see. / That’s the divine bannister. / / The…
Roseland
Jack Christian
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It’s raining, but Matt says, that isn’t rain. / You make tea with it or it gets to you. / It’s an antelope. In other converted basements / …
Another from the Live Creature Series
Jack Christian
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There’s an account wherein a piano falls in on itself and a man inhabits a stoop, but calls it his tree. When I step up on him my appearance grows…
An Ape
Jack Christian
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1,307 views
I walk a dog-colored thought to the All Dog Chapel / of Lost Dog Souls / where I purchase a translucent retriever. / Though I gather he comes…
Let’s Collaborate
Jack Christian
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4,186 views
I was thinking maybe you’d write one for me / and give it to me and I could say it’s mine / and never tell anyone, but always / give you credit…
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Ink Node, 2009–2021
Brian Christian
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Ink Node was conceived in Seattle in 2008 by Brian Christian and Evan Nagle, who imagined a different model for what a literary publication could…
Who died and made you
Jessica Fjeld
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I’m sorry that the pencil I gave you // to write out the list of how the day had wronged you / had a lead so soft it collapsed into the page / …
Another World
Seth Landman
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If I ever calm down for a moment,remind me about the terrible world.Many times I thought, oh, I can’t take it,I’m brokenhearted, and went home and…
Beside Myself
Brian Foley
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I saw Rich become a stranger and was thankful / I saw Haley sleep before travel and was thankful / I saw Elena sew the seams and was thankful / I…
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