As a Portent by David Baker

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 1, 2014   As a Portent   David Baker

At least there was a                                          song    timorous of wing-beat snowdrift ash                                           of red horizon then somewhere calling                                          as under one’s breath (I did not hope you                                          would find me wanting) and the next extinction                                           on every wing—            Copyright © 2014 by David Baker. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “Phrases and voices surround us always, like notes of music whose sources may be just out of sight, out of reach. Pieces of a story, a relationship, a landscape—here I let them coexist without too much worry over explanations. Here too I’m interested in both form and fracture, letting the syllabic lines maintain a rift, a caesura, as part of the rhythm of it all.” —David Baker   David Baker is the author of Scavenger Loop (W. W. Norton), which is forthcoming in 2015. He teaches at Denison University and lives in Granville, Ohio. Most Recent Book by Baker   Never-Ending Birds (W. W. Norton, 2011) "Ephemeral Stream" by Elizabeth Willis "All She Wrote" by Harryette Mullen "Leo Said" by Eileen Myles Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. 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.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038