looking

Jim Kacian

:: the poem first appeared in Mariposa 19 (2008) ::

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the slaughterhouse

—2012—

from a series of 12 that appeared in Ginyu 53

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Attack of the Difficult Poems — Charles Bernstein

from breaking through with W. J. O’Reilly (“The Poet in Today’s World”) / 2011

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parallel channeling

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Andrew Young / ant ant ant ant ant 1 (1994)

Chris Gordon / Raw NerVZ 7.1 (2001)

Scott Metz / Modern Haiku 39.1 (2008)

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tradition

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“Tradition is everything. . . . The press . . . they love to separate avant-garde from tradition. At the end they are not two things. They are the same thing. . . . There’s only two kinds of cooking: the bad cooking and the good cooking. What happens is if we forget our traditions, if we don’t keep looking to the past, it’s very difficult to understand who you are, and even more difficult to be looking to the future.”

José Andrés

chef and owner of minibar, Zaytinya & é 

& teacher, with Ferran Adrià, of culinary physics at Harvard University

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it’s skinny

—1992—

from “Haiku Edge” in Rain Mirror (New Directions, 1999)

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debating

—1987—

from Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992 (Harper Perennial, 1995)

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run

—1956—

from Book of Haikus (Penguin Books, 2003)

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a/way

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“Probably the further we get away from Japanese haiku the closer we get to haiku.”  —Marlene Mountain  (Japaneasy / 1.11.2001)

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what we breathe

from R’r 11.1 (2011)

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canoe

“canoe” by john martone (2010)

cover art for R’r 10.2

first appeared in Otoliths 17

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rings

A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music, 2011.
Modified turntable, computer, vvvv, camera, acrylic glass, veneer, approx. 90x50x50 cm.

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Years / Bartholomäus Traubeck

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yards & lots by Jack Galmitz

yards & lots
by Jack Galmitz
contributing editor of R’r

now available from Middle Island Press

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in tenement rooms
the saxophone you hear
when the moon is full

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opposite leaves sing on to me

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she looks young
she looks old
she cries for dead birds

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