"Leaving" is a melancholy examination by Blasted Tree poet Ivan Fischer of how we honor those who have left us behind. Should we do things the way they would have? What remains besides the impression of their habits? Maybe we can be haunted by their lingering advice: always prepare for company.
Featured Poetry - Far Too Close by Jesse Anger
Rarely is poetry successful in its aim to reinvent the past, to take the familiar and present it in a new and exciting light. And yet, this is exactly what Jesse Anger accomplishes as he expertly exhumes the bones of tradition, articulating them to his own syncopated rhythms and unflinching vision. Alternately haunting and beautiful, Far Too Close collects some previously published work alongside several never-before-seen poems.
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Featured Poem - Designer Drugs by Kyle Flemmer
"Designer Drugs" invites you to re-imagine your relationship to media, marketing, and the entertainment industry. Written for and performed at Calgary's Ink Spot Collective Poetry Slam, May 26, 2014.
These days, it’s hard to keep it up.
Calvin Klein runs fingers up my spine from a superhighway billboard sign,
Whispering in my ear: