Max Lasky is a poet from New Jersey, currently living in Tallahassee where he is a PhD student in creative writing at Florida State University. He earned his B.A. from Ramapo College, his MFA from the University of Maryland, and has received scholarships to attend the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College […]
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Max Lasky: Prothalamion Poured from a Copper Cezve
Zuleyha read my fortune in the dried coffee grinds and tossed the saucer toward the future, its arc across rented a chemtrail through the sky, and I didn’t ask why, I didn’t point it out or make a scene about the vision I’d been led to believe, as if with a […]
Max Lasky: Come Here
We read Hikmet during what she called a picnic, though we brought no wicker basket, no plaid blanket, we rolled our jeans up under our knees to wade across the river, wide and knee high, the entire riverbed bedded with sharp rocks covered in moss, slick enough beneath our bare feet to make us walk […]