Poem-A-Day: Poem Excluding Fiction by Noah Falck

October 3, 2013 Poem Excluding Fiction by Noah Falck     We live in the most fortunate of times. And  who's to blame? Our moods like the four  seasons in a tinted window overlooking a  bank robbery. Everyone is raising children  on cable television, on leashes, on the slot  machines that have become our elegies. We  live other lives in high school, college, on the  porch reading the obituaries. Say I miss you into the mirror while shaving, brushing teeth,  plucking something meant to grow forever.         Copyright © 2013 by Noah Falck. Used with permission of the author.   About This Poem "'Poem Excluding Fiction' is part of a larger project I have been writing called Exclusions. All the exclusion poems, as the title suggests, are experimenting with writing a specific idea, theme, or object out of the poem. They attempt to question the world through subtraction."  --Noah Falck Most Recent Book by Falck Snowmen Losing Weight (BatCat Press, 2012)   Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.   Noah Falck is the author of the forthcoming Celebrity Dream Poems (Poor Claudia, 2013) and Snowmen Losing Weight (BatCat Press, 2012). He cocurates the Silo City Reading Series and works as Education Director at Just Buffalo Literary Center in Buffalo, New York.  Related Poems The Secret by Denise Levertov First Things to Hand by Robert Pinsky Daily Life by Susan Wood __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

Forward this email This email was sent to prentice654.allsms@blogger.com by poetnews@poets.org |   Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. Academy of American Poets | 75 Maiden Lane | Suite 901 | New York | NY | 10038