Date: 2006
"I do my best, squeezing the static and / the agony into a straight flat line, / but soon it soars and dips until my mind's / activity looks (you can take the girl...) / uncannily like the Manhattan skyline."
preview | full record— Wetzsteon, Rachel
Date: 2006
"I'm watching them all right, unruly dots / I not only can't part from but can't help / transforming into restless bodies -- they're / no sooner being thought than sprouting limbs, / no longer motionless but striding proudly, / beautiful mental jukeboxes that play / their litanies of joy and woe ...
preview | full record— Wetzsteon, Rachel
Date: 2009
"These are some of the things // you don't have to know because the melody / is like a small bird, maybe a yellow canary, / that wings its way into your mind / --no, into your heart-- / where there's a perch already // set up for it, a little trapeze / to swing back and forth on as it sings / and...
preview | full record— Raab, Lawrence (b. 1946)
Date: June 1, 2010
"Books live in the mind like honey inside a beehive.
preview | full record— McGrath, Campbell (b. 1962)
Date: 2010
"A thought to mind, so to the string / plucked, or touched, or bowed, the music is, / a wrinkling of the air as immaterial / and brief as sunlight glancing on a wave."
preview | full record— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)
Date: April 4, 2011
"For in mind should be voidy wings choiring, not selves."
preview | full record— Williams, C. K. (b. 1936)
Date: April 24, 2011
"God seeks a destiny in all things fired / in the kiln of the sun or the mind."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: April 21, 2014
"The old gag about LPs being like gasoline / Puddles that go up and dizzy us / With their fumes, and of middle age / Rotating us out of Earth's orbit, stars like / A corrupted computer file / And the forgetful mind, a red-topped / Tupperware when we were young / Now without gravity or capacity li...
preview | full record— Greenbaum, Jessica
Date: 2014
"To your mind, feelings are what create a person, something unwilling, something wild vandalizing whatever the skull holds."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)