from Pedagogy of Love Model and a link to wunderkammer

You don’t know me

You me we don’t know

We

Know 

Don’t 

No

            unanswerable

un-

“explicit design”

“in the gaps”             unknown

unknowable

unknown 

unanswerable

unanswerable unknown

unanswerable unknown

unanswerable unknown

unanswerable unknown

unanswerable unknown

unanswerable unknown

un-

  attempt

  attempt; to fail

  attempt, to fail

to fail?

to fail an attempt to fail

  Innocence

Presence

Present innocence

[be here]

Want 

         to be here

I want to— here

The Post Title is linked to Wunderkammer! Thanks for continuing make a place for my poems and photos +V. Wunderkammer is a curious collection of art, poetry, and prose. Wunderkammer is now seeking creative work that falls into these categories: Collection (deadline--June 14, 2009), Obama (deadline--June 28, 2009), Ecopoetics (deadline--July 12, 2009)

BACK ROOM LIVE ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! BERMEO ! RHEE ! PEREZ ! YEE !

Check out backroomlive.wordpress.com for new writing from Debbie Yee ! Margaret Rhee ! Oscar Bermeo ! Craig Santos Perez ! Also look for guest curators Sara Mumolo in June and Trevor Calvert in August !

  Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is the author of Anywhere Avenue, Palimpsest and Heaven Below.

His poems appear in Achiote Seeds, BorderSenses, CrossBRONX, Ozone Park, and Spindle, among others.  Oscar has been a featured writer at a variety of institutions including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Intersection for the Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, Bronx Academy of Letters, Rikers Island Penitentiary, San Quentin Prison, the Loft Literary Center, Sacramento Poetry Center, UC Berkeley, UNC-Chapel Hill, NYU and many others.

He now makes his home in Oakland, with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.

For more information on Oscar and his poetics, please visit his website, http://oscarbermeo.com, or his blog, http://geminipoet.blogspot.com.

Debbie Yee is an attorney, poet and arts & crafts enthusiast.  A Kundiman fellow, Debbie's poems have appeared in 32 Poems and Barn Owl Review, among others.  Her poem, "Cinderella's Last Will and Testament", was selected for The Best American Poetry 2009. http://www.debbieyee.com

Margaret Rhee is an emerging interdisciplinary writer, scholar, and artist, dedicated to social justice.  She is a doctoral student in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, lover of full bodied coffee and wine, and a Kundiman fellow in poetry. http://www.aapw-la.org/

 

Craig Santos Perez is a co-founder of Achiote Press (www.achiotepress.com) and author of from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008). His poetry, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in New American Writing, Pleiades, The Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others. He blogs at blindelephant.blogspot.com.