Claudia Serea, a recent contributor to The 2River View, recently read a few poems at the Porter Contemporary in New York City. Serea, as well as two other poets, read poems related to The Price of Everything, a solo exhibit by Jeannie Barrese.
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Winter Issue of 2RV
The first day of winter always means a new issue of 2RV. So click over to 2River and follow the link there to the winter issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Brittany Barberino Evans, Benny Biesek, Bri Bruce, Christien Gholson, D.B. Goman, Romana Iorga, Elizabeth Majerus, Kelly Nelson, Annmarie O’Connell,Claudia Reinhardt, and Claudia Serea.
Happy Holidays!
Fall 2River Now Online
Jump over to 2River for the latest Fall 2013 issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Lenny DellaRocca, Judith Barrington, Rebecca D’Alise. Karen Donovan, Gary Dop, Marcel Gauthier, Marjorie Maddox, Christine Marshall, Carolyn Murdoch, Barbara Schwartz, and Lauren Shimulunas. Don’t let the halloween art scare you away.
2RV Fall Teaser
Jump over to 2River next week for the Fall issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Lenny DellaRocca, Judith Barrington, Rebecca D’Alise, Karen Donovan, Gary Dop, Marcel Gauthier, Marjorie Maddox. Christine Marshall, Carolyn Murdoch, Barbara Schwartz, and Lauren Shimulunas. Meanwhile, here’s a teaser:
Bird Café
Lenny Dellarocca
There was a dusty bird finished with everything,
evening stirred in the trees
and the figs were never consumed.
Above the noise of conversation
at the sidewalk restaurant,
I overheard a man say something
about the Café Verona. I wondered
why my ear tuned to just his words
in the miscellaneous air,
why my eye sought out that bird
sleeping among elms and wrens
as if nothing on earth mattered.
These were equations to me,
physical realities
caught by chance in nonlinear
verbatim by the formula
which sends art out among chaos
and finds a place for itself.
As if all possibilities had been
ruled out
except that bird
and a voice saying Café Verona.
There was, and could not be,
anything else in the world.
2River Wayback
2River was first crawled by robots on November 2, 1996. Here’s how 2River looked:
Visit the Wayback Machine for more historical captures of 2River.
Lay Back the Darkness
“Lay Back the Darkness,” by Edward Hirsch:
#2 in the 2River Poetry Currents series of animated poems
Spring Issue of The 2River View
Maybe Eliot was wrong and March instead is the cruelest month, what with over a foot of snow yesterday here in St. Louis, Missouri. But foul weather or an ill-tempered groundhog can’t stop the arrival of the 17.3 (Spring 2013) issue of The 2River View. Wherever you are, whether buried in snow or basking in the sun, do enjoy these new poems by K. R. Barger, J. S. Belote, Randolph Bridgeman, Charles Cessna, Kathy Davis, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Christien Gholson, Katherine Mitchell, James B. Nicola, Diana Reaves, Philippe Shils, and Barbara Wuest.
Spring Teaser
2River knows you’re anxious for the Spring issue of 2RV. Be patient, it’s coming soon and it’s filled with new poems by J. S. Belote, K. R. Barger, Randolph Bridgeman, Charles Cessna, Kathy Davis, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Christien Gholson, Katherine Mitchell, James B. Nicola, Diana Reaves, Philippe Shils, and Barbara Wuest. Meanwhile, here to satisfy your thirst is the poem by Charles Cessna.
Hanging
I am left
hanging as
the apple hangs
at the highest point of the tree.
So many
pried loose
become mash
under the hooves of cows.
When days
grow cold,
the sunlight lacks
a certain hardness
in the early morning.
Gradually
color changes
from ruddy red
to dull brown and gray.
Look up, look,
I am turning idly in the wind,
even as the last leaves fall,
and the cows lope insensibly towards the hay.
Popov’s Take on “Digging”
A video essay by Anya Popov on “Digging” by Seamus Heaney. Popov made the video for her poetry and plays class at STLCC–Meramec.
Muddy Bank 