Date: August 12/19, 2002
"In his mind's eye he can see himself coolly flipping the garlic and pepper T-bones on the front acreage of his new grill while carefully testing the citrus-tarragon trout filets that sizzle fragrantly in the rear."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: 2002
"Of the friend watching him leave remembering / the story of her body / with his once and the stories of their children / made with other people and how his mind went on / pressing hers like a body."
preview | full record— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Date: 2002
"There is the story of the mind's temperature neither cold nor celibate."
preview | full record— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Date: 2002
"The river rises in the mind, but empties nowhere, / Its hair naked in naked branches."
preview | full record— Wright, Charles (b. 1935)
Date: 2003
"How to hold it all at once, / except by passion's climb, / its rising tides & breathless, / hawk's-eye view?"
preview | full record— Spaar, Lisa Russ
Date: 2003
"Believe the fallen leaf / from one world floats there, / in another, tawny star on the black water, / the soul's cradle, / even when he must pause / to rest his racing heart, / & cannot see it?"
preview | full record— Spaar, Lisa Russ
Date: 2003
"In fact, it seems quite plausible that some version of this axiom (perhaps 'Even a paranoid can have enemies,' uttered by Henry Kissinger) is so indelibly inscribed in the brains of baby boomers that it offers us the continuing illusion of possessing a special insight into the epistemologies of ...
preview | full record— Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (1950-2009)
Date: 2003
"So next time you see the homey and his rims spin / Just know my mind is working just like them / (rims, that is)"
preview | full record— Carter, Shawn Corey (b. 1969) [Jay-Z]
Date: 2004
"Shine on me baby, because it's raining in my heart."
preview | full record— Smith, Elliott (1969-2003)