Social Media Poems 2019 Simeon Berry Contents A Vision for the Coming Year (Joanna Penn Cooper) ................................................................................. 1 Triage (Adrian Blevins) ................................................................................................................................ 3 In Praise of Wax (Landon Godfrey) ............................................................................................................. 4 August (Sandra Beasley) ............................................................................................................................... 5 Oracle for the Violin’s Daughter (Erica Wright) .......................................................................................... 6 In the Dream (Jenny Johnson) ...................................................................................................................... 7 Our Lady of the Hair Cuttery (B.K. Fischer) ................................................................................................ 9 Kowalski: A Historiography (Sean Thomas Dougherty) ............................................................................ 10 The Cartoonist in Hell (Paul Guest) ............................................................................................................ 11 A Simple Lesson on the Buried Spirit (Lisa Olstein) ................................................................................. 12 Writing Poetry Is Like Fielding Ground Balls (Tara Skurtu) ..................................................................... 13 Tongs (Gregory Lawless) ........................................................................................................................... 14 “Since I Fell For You”: A Deposition (Ed Pavlić) ...................................................................................... 15 Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany (Justin Bigos) .................................................................... 17 from “Brahms’s Requiem” (Joel Long) ...................................................................................................... 19 Fish & Duck Skills (Metta Sáma) ............................................................................................................... 20 Annie Oakley Misses the Kaiser (Robert Archambeau) ............................................................................. 21 breadcrumbs (Jamie Mortara) ..................................................................................................................... 22 Winter Stars (Larry Levis) .......................................................................................................................... 24 from “Terroir” (Jon D. Lee) ........................................................................................................................ 26 Red Wreck Learns Through Secondhand Experience (Jenny Irish) ........................................................... 27 Rewinding an Overdose on a Projector (Sean Shearer) .............................................................................. 28 Seven Minutes in Heaven (Melissa Stein) .................................................................................................. 29 When You Told Me Your Father Was Dying (Aaron Smith) ..................................................................... 30 Tracking Shot (Marc McKee) ..................................................................................................................... 31 Iceland (Dorianne Laux) ............................................................................................................................. 32 The Thirty-Years Minor Skirmish (Jim Daniels) ........................................................................................ 34 Bertolt Brecht in Eternity (Adam Zagajewski) ........................................................................................... 37 In the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments (Rachel Loden) ............................................................................ 38 from “On Tour with Rita” (Nicholas Christopher) ..................................................................................... 39 from “Interlude: A Real Life Fiction” (Julie Carr) ..................................................................................... 40 Slight (Elaine Equi) ..................................................................................................................................... 41 Origins of Violence (Jenny George) ........................................................................................................... 42 A History of Something (Arda Collins) ...................................................................................................... 43 38 (Layli Long Soldier) .............................................................................................................................. 45 On Dissonance (Virginia Konchan) ............................................................................................................ 50 After the Poet From Kentucky Tells Me My Poems Are Not Considerate to Their Audience I Try to Teach Him What I Know About Etiquette (Kendra DeColo) ..................................................................... 51 The Small Husband (Heather Christle) ....................................................................................................... 52 from Baby, I don’t care (Chelsey Minnis) .................................................................................................. 53 People, the ghosts down in North-of-the-South aren’t see-through (Diane Seuss) .................................... 54 from “Territory” (JD Scrimgeour) .............................................................................................................. 55 Day 5 (Meghan Privitello) .......................................................................................................................... 59 Dangerous for Girls (Connie Voisine) ........................................................................................................ 60 Shooting Range (Erin Belieu) ..................................................................................................................... 62 Dear Fire (Laura Kasischke) ....................................................................................................................... 63 Breach Year (Mary Biddinger) ................................................................................................................... 65 Let’s Live in the Books of My Childhood (Catherine Pierce) .................................................................... 66 Layover (Kristin Bock) ............................................................................................................................... 67 The Illusion of Choice (Kate Hancock) ...................................................................................................... 68 from “The Canal Diaries” (Maggie Nelson) ............................................................................................... 69 Where We Feel It The Most (David Daniel) ............................................................................................... 70 Who Were Frederick Douglass’s Cousins, and Other Quotidian Black History Facts That I Wish I Learned in School (Morgan Parker)............................................................................................................ 71 Accursed Questions, i (Catherine Barnett) ................................................................................................. 72 American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (Terrance Hayes) ....................................................... 75 Poetry Machines (Cate Marvin) .................................................................................................................. 76 Someone’s Utopia: Love as a Fountain (Joe Hall)...................................................................................... 77 The Body in Pain (Jillian Weise) ................................................................................................................ 78 Which makes me, I guess, the muddy Colorado (Patrick Donnelly) .......................................................... 81 from “Neonatology” (Elizabeth Alexander) ............................................................................................... 82 from Julia the Astonishing (Julia Story) ..................................................................................................... 83 from “At the White Quay” (Monica Ferrell)............................................................................................... 85 Between the Tongue and the Warm Salt (Alicia Jo Rabins) ....................................................................... 86 from “The Lumberjack’s Dove” (GennaRose Nethercott) ......................................................................... 87 What Was Left of the Angel (Victoria Redel) ............................................................................................ 89 Etymology of butch (Kristin Chang) .......................................................................................................... 91 from “Dear Miss Hamilton,” (Michael Martone) ....................................................................................... 93 Ultrasound (sam sax) 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