Currently poetry facilitator for independent seniors at Mercy LIFE, Alicia Askenase was a founding co-editor of the lit journal 6ix, and Literary Program Director at the Walt Whitman Center in New Jersey for many years. Her chapbooks include: Cover, Suspect, The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press), and Shirley Shirley (sonaweb). Her poems have appeared in […]
Alicia Askenase
Alicia Askenase: Travel Light
for Val Up there with bad betrayals, which are all bad, the worst to the self, I left mine with the elegant hotel concierge in Dubrovnik I had no trouble warming up to, except the lobby was somewhere in the middle of the place, so you never knew until you had passed through it. […]
Alicia Askenase: Planet’s Climate Reversal in Spite of Itself and What Lies Outside of Itself
It’s raining iguanas In the In God We Trust state, plopping From trees, not dead, playing dead, when temperature Falls below 50, sluggish, under 40, blood stops moving. Whatever you do, don’t touch them! They have a good chance if you push them into the sun. Somebody will prod one with his pool skimmer So […]