Matthew Tierney is the author of three books of poetry. Poems excerpted from Probably Inevitable. His previous book, The Hayflick Limit, was shortlisted for a Trillium Book Award. He is…
Category: Poems
A sound installation from one of my excellent students from our OffThePage event featuring Chantal Neveu, Laura Broadbent and Jon Paul Fiorentino. Borders: Benjamin Spencer
Click on the poem to see the next poem. Sandra Simonds is the author of three collections of poetry: Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009), Mother Was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland…
John Wentworth, Governor of Nova Scotia: Libertine I. My Lady’s Champagne sex— bubbly, prickly, toasts a garden-party orgy. Madame sports cake-frosting lace, but she’s just…
An Atlas of the Atlas Moth Now I am an adult & I will never eat again. All the weight & elaboration that ever took in a morsel of…
Pastoral leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and branch and leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and postcard of greenish sunset and leaf…
God Only Knows That I Can’t Look Away for Sarah Valentine is still my favorite word. But really ‘and’ is. ‘and’ & ‘or’, as well as ‘anyway’ like ‘anyway…’ &…
My favorite love poem was originally by Mike Tyson, though I have since appropriated it. It captures all the ambivalence and drive of desire that cannot be quenched and will…
TO THE DRONE VAGUELY REALIZING EASTWARD This is a poem for President Drone. It was written by a camel. Can I borrow your phone? This is for President Mark Hamill.…
We need a federal agent to protect every little girl with a stupid relative We need a federal agent at every cancer hospital We need a federal agent at every…
Some see a lake of fire at the end of it, Or heaven’s guesswork, something always to be sketched in. I see a sullen boy in a video arcade. He’s…
THINGS THAT RUN THROUGH MY HEAD WHEN WRITING AN EKPHRASTIC POEM My approach is in spirals, I walk around in my mind, around the painting. I try to see the…