Date: 2006
"Curses, outbursts / and distracting chants simmer all day / long in the Crock-Pots of our heads."
preview | full record— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)
Date: 2006
"If our thoughts / and feelings were soup or stew, would they taste / of bile when we're defeated and be flavored / faintly with grace on better days?"
preview | full record— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)
Date: 2007
"When a human embryo is seven weeks old, / the brain shines through its forehead, a cloud / of light, belly-deep and breathing, / the whole, luminous mass cabled and alone."
preview | full record— Witt, Sam (b. 1970)
Date: 2008
"Oh Bryn, you see through the dark, / Right past the fireflies that sleep in my heart."
preview | full record— Koenig, Ezra (b. 1984) [Vampire Weekend]
Date: December 2009
"Like an oyster / That cloisters a spoil of pearls, / Untouched— // The heart that’s had / Enough / Stays shut."
preview | full record— Essbaum, Jill Alexander
Date: December 2009
"To keep your cell the way you keep your soul, / Untidy-minded, neither soiled nor sold / For next to nothing, a treasury of old / Notions like the notes of a piano-roll / Which cannot improvise though it knows a whole / Repertoire, what ought one to withhold?"
preview | full record— Hine, Daryl (b. 1936)
Date: December 2009
"This stanza become a catacomb or tomb / That serves as a temporary safe deposit / Vault for your perduring lost & found / Mind, which articulately could presume / To ask of being what could cause it, / A question as unanswerable as profound."
preview | full record— Hine, Daryl (b. 1936)
Date: December 14, 2009
"That'll keep them brain-chained to their trees."
preview | full record— Wright, Franz (b.1953)
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: February 1, 2010
"Burn the body down / And, with it, out goes the pilot / Blue light of the mind."
preview | full record— Cruz, Cynthia