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Christopher Connelly

Christopher Connelly

April 18, 2013 by PBQ

Chris Connelly is a poet who lives in New York City.

Filed Under: Contributors 63, Contributors 64, Contributors 65, Issue 65 Tagged With: Christopher Connelly, Contributors, Contributors 63, Contributors 64, Contributors 65

Christopher Connelly: Fog

May 20, 2011 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Fog is the rain’s wife. I’m trembling not from its emptiness, but because it is so full of what passes through the tongue and the feet refuse to describe. Fog covers the scythe in the horizon that offers, to grass like ourselves, the ecstasy of its edge.

Filed Under: Contributors 63, Issue 63, Poetry, Poetry 63 Tagged With: Christopher Connelly, Contributors 63, Poetry, Poetry 63

Christopher Connelly: Mud

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

I dreamt that I buried a man’s arm in a field so empty and wide anyone who’d seen me kneeling would’ve wondered if I were the broken end of a tree or a man. The arm was warm and it reddened where I pressed my fingers against it. I was sure I hadn’t killed the […]

Filed Under: Contributors 63, Issue 63, Poetry, Poetry 63 Tagged With: Christopher Connelly, Contributors 63, Poetry, Poetry 63

Christopher Connelly: César Vallejo

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

He sang like a gun. He knew salt and how to coax it from a bundle of rags with a long wooden pole. When he laid down he was so still children bit him. César Vallejo’s arm is dead and so are both of the eyes that starved in the Luxembourg Gardens, wondering at the […]

Filed Under: Contributors 63, Issue 63, Poetry, Poetry 63 Tagged With: Christopher Connelly, Contributors 63, Poetry, Poetry 63

Christopher Connelly: Orpheus

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

He was a god, he didn’t need Eurydice. It doesn’t matter that the lavender honey of his too-perfect love hardened, or that he saw the sun from pure darkness. But don’t hate Orpheus, praise him for the space that his failure left between love and the world. That singing means nothing without death is the […]

Filed Under: Contributors 64, Issue 64, Poetry 64 Tagged With: Christopher Connelly, Contributors 64, Poetry, Poetry 64

Bob Holman with Christopher Connelly:     Griots Gestural Poems, and Giving Off Sparks:    Bob Holman Teaches PBQ    How to Put the English on the Word

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

If you have paid attention to poetry at all during the last 20 years, you have probably heard of Bob Holman, who has long been the neglected art’s most tireless advocate. He is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of two anthologies, including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet’s Café, winner […]

Filed Under: Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65, Issue 65 Tagged With: Bob Holman, Christopher Connelly, Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65

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