Poetry – Page 3 – Confluence

questions for ludovico einaudi

by Elizabeth CheshirePosted on November 7, 2017January 19, 2018Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

A short poem inspired by Ludovico Einaudi's "Elements."

Gold to Airy Thinness Beat

by LyraPosted on October 26, 2017December 15, 2017Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

"I jump the fence at the park, / following echoes to twist and fall back / down, down, to sink beneath the waves, the sand, the snow closing over / eyes that don’t see, that aren’t here,"

my mother the librarian

by Vivien YuePosted on October 20, 2017November 17, 2017Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

"maybe because she was raised poor, / maybe because for the first decade of her life / mao ripped away her / expression, her roses, identity– / brainwashed, is the word she uses now, but // my mother keeps everything"

Horns & Bloom

by Paris ReidPosted on September 28, 2017November 8, 2017Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

"suspended on a mantle / of tempestuous clouds / he dares you to turn—"

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Aspects of Light

by Richard SemusPosted on September 21, 2017September 10, 2018Interdisciplinary SeminarPoetry

Two Poems, after Vermeer and Chardin

City Blocks

by Elizabeth CheshirePosted on May 9, 2017September 21, 2017Independent ProjectPoetryPortfolio

'City Blocks' is a series of translations that transpose image into text. Each poem is an evocation of an image, reimagining the city from visual data, rather than a poem about the experience of that place.