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Voices of the city : Newark reads poetry 2004 / edited by Rosamond S. King [and others].

Title
Voices of the city : Newark reads poetry 2004 / edited by Rosamond S. King [and others].
Publication
New York : Hanging Loose Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors
  • King, Rosamond S.
  • Rutgers--Newark. Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004067342
Description
96 pages; 22 cm
Summary
"Voices of the City is a collection of vibrant poems that take the pulse of the modern city in all its joy and despair, its yearning and celebration. Organized by the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University Newark, in conjunction with Hanging Loose Press, this anthology features work from some of the country's best-known writers side by side with prize-winning poems by talented teenagers."--BOOK JACKET.
Alternative Title
Newark reads poetry
Subjects
Note
  • "A project of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, & the Modern Experience"
Contents
Cityscapes -- Inside the city / Amy Kenna -- To and from sonnet / Chuck Wachtel -- Jesus turns asphalt into bread / Havan Charara -- Composition #1 / Eula Biss -- Johannesburg Jacaranda / Mary Ferrari -- Still life with white tablecloth / Mary Ferrari -- The Ristorante San Marco / Mary Ferrari -- Traffic report : this is Pale Otis in the chopper / Ron Overton -- Stream structure / Nathan Whiting -- Sonnet for the #6 / Jack Agueros -- Psalm for distribution / Jack Agueros -- Brook Avenue, the Bronx (1998) / Angelo Verga -- Headlights / Nora Lawrence -- Backyards, Brooklyn / Elinor Nauen -- After the 11th / Brenda Coultas -- Later / Brenda Coultas -- Prometheus at Coney Island / Quentin Rowan -- New York New York / Jayne Cortez -- On an Acura Integra / Paul Violi -- New York note / Harvey Shapiro -- Lessons / Harvey Shapiro -- The Brooklyn Bridge climbs on bones of bricklayers / Sharon Mesmer -- Hare Krishna haute couture say goodbye to the little yellow building / Hettie Jones -- Crossing over / Frank Murphy -- People at pay phones / Larry Zirlin -- Wallington, N.J. / Joel Lewis -- Hoboken early Sunday morning / Joel Lewis -- Times Square / Maggie Nelson -- Subway in March, 5:45 pm / Maggie Nelson -- Urban Cultures -- Drift / Mary Bonina -- Examples / Mary Bonina -- Praise you Harry Gordon / Douglas Goetsch -- Living alone / Douglas Goetsch -- Letter to a ghetto boy three thousand miles away / Annie Lee -- Loneliness is / Brittany Bruce -- My mother cooking squash in the kitchen / Hayan Charara -- Letter from New York / Joanna Fuhrman -- Room temperature, a more personal moraine / Joanna Fuhrman -- Red pens / Tony Towle -- The dinner party / Tony Towle -- Jazz fan looks back / Jayne Cortex -- Keys to the city / Jayne Cortez' -- 3 day New York blues / Jayne Cortez -- Tory sitting on a couch in a coffee shop on the corner of Ninth Street and Avenue A / Alexis Goldberg -- Love and hate / Cristina Felipe -- Fourteen / Nora Lawrence -- Incisors of dawn / Vicki Hudspith -- January in Detroit or search for tomorrow starring Ken and Ann / Ken Mikolowski -- The real New Yorkers / Robert Hershon -- Can odor pollution make you sick? / Nathan Whiting -- Building a staircase by hand / Donna Brook -- Oral history / Gary Lenhart -- Chemists / Gary Lenhart -- All shook up / Mark Pawlak -- What I burned / Jacqueline Lyons -- Outing Iranians / Roger Sedarat -- Bobback Duke / Roger Sedarat -- Passing / Jack Anderson -- Things (for an Indian) to do in New York (City) / Sherman Alexie -- Friendship / Dick Lourie.
ISBN
1931236429
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries