In my hollow bones I heard her Like a bone woman A lisp Her eyes were green And I see now How I thought I was beautiful Compared to him But she was beautiful Compared to me And he would chose her In my head And in the hall of my roots Where the dead [...]
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Poem of the Day: In My Hollow Bones
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 12/27/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Poem of the Day: Face of Eyes
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 09/16/2011 | Leave a Comment »
In silence I listened to silence, God was above me, Jesus below me. They wore different hats. I swam with dolphins from my window and ate the flesh of fish. I sunburned and the skies were brilliant there. All different colors. I could use the excuse that I was in love. Something yearning to come [...]
Poem of the Day: Because I’ll Die
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 09/05/2011 | 1 Comment »
Because I’ll die I’ll die and someday this will all be gone This spot My clients This class Rachel Ephraim Josh’s apartment Scott, Scott’s cat All of Rochester Mike and his house in the suburbs All those feelings I thought were so real I could just keep caring Caring about everything About every word Said [...]
Nina Alvarez in Johnson, VT
Posted in Nina Alvarez, Write, Writer on 08/18/2011 | Leave a Comment »
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Poem of the Day: And Blue (From an Alphabetically Reformatted Essay on Wassily Kandinsky – A’s)
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 08/02/2011 | Leave a Comment »
abandoned only because academic usage had made it lifeless. abandoned realism but used it for the painting of feeling abandoned. In this way the material object was made more abstract like a tennis ball over the net between the two parties above the clouds. absolute necessity to the composition, or should they be [...]
Poem of the Day: I Will Wait
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 07/17/2011 | 1 Comment »
I will wait because I have found how to wait. I have found that waiting is. As the wind swings open the wooden door, as it gently closes, square roots of measured weather. -Nina Alvarez
The Poetry Outfield: Submitting Your Poems for Publication
Posted in Nina Alvarez, Write, Writer on 07/15/2011 | Leave a Comment »
LAST CALL! Tomorrow morning, this one-time poetry publishing workshop at Writers and Books in Rochester, NY. July 16, 1 Saturday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $39 W&B members / $43 general public Instructor: Nina Alvarez You’ve got poems piling up on your hard drive, your notebook, and in your desk drawer. You know it’s time to start sending them [...]
Poem of the Day: Negative logic (The rope, the knife, the pill, the essential)
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 06/26/2011 | Leave a Comment »
It is the heart. The heart cannot stay, Marked with the storm of the titled page With all the appropriate shadows Long in the cranium, sung and webbed And finally useless, like a wine bottle, cut-glass breasts, Occam’s Razor in a kettle on the stove And Jesus Christ Relleno Bound at the wrist, face frank, [...]
Poem of the Day: A Tall Girl Should Stand Up Straight
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 06/23/2011 | Leave a Comment »
A tall girl should stand up straight A guy who likes you should call. A pretty girl should smile. An almost pretty girl should smile more. A girl who wants to be noticed should wear makeup, not glasses. A girl with hair as blonde as yours should wear eyeliner. A person with cool skin tones [...]
Poem of the Day: On Living
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 06/21/2011 | 1 Comment »
I Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example– I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. Living is no laughing matter: you must take it seriously, so much so and to such a degree that, for [...]
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