About Stephen Kuusisto and Beloit Poetry Journal

Today's poem is "Jazz from Cripple City"

from Beloit Poetry Journal

Stephen Kuusisto is the author of Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening and the acclaimed memoir Planet of the Blind, a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”. He has also published Only Bread, Only Light, a collection of poems from Copper Canyon Press. He holds a dual faculty appointment at the University of Iowa where he teaches courses in creative nonfictionin the English Department and serves as a public humanities scholar in the U of Iowa’s Carver Institute for Macular Degenaration. He speaks widely on diversity, disability, education, and public policy. His essays and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary magazines including Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine; Poetry; and Partisan Review. He is currently working on a collection of prose poems for Copper Canyon Press entitled Mornings With Borges as well as a collection of political poems about disability.
Books by Stephen Kuusisto: Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening, Planet of the Blind , Only Bread Only Light, The Poet's Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Contemporary American Poets, Taking Note: From Poet's Notebooks
Other poems on the web by Stephen Kuusisto:
"Elegy for Lucy Grealy"
"Kansas: Deaf Girl Watching the Moon"
Four poems
"Summer at North Farm"
Four poems
Stephen Kuusisto's Home Page.
Stephen Kuusisto's Blog.
About Beloit Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: Alicia Ostriker, Robert Bly, Stephen Kuusisto, Ishle Yi Park, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Martín Espada, Galway Kinnell, Patricia Smith, Alix Olson, Sam Hamill, E. Ethelbert Miller, Naomi Shihab Nye, Carolyn Forché, Susan Tichy, Pamela Uschuk, Sonia Sanchez, Joy Harjo, Mark Doty

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Editor: John Rosenwald & Lee Sharkey

Other poems from Beloit Poetry Journal in Verse Daily:
December 27, 2007: "Fetching" by Christopher Matthews
December 26, 2007: "One of the Magi" by Greg Wrenn
September 14, 2007: "A Story About Things" by Heather Maki
September 13, 2007: "The Chapter of the Rending in Sunder" by Mia Nussbaum
September 10, 2007: "Extravagance" by Steve Wilson
March 25, 2007: "Lullaby" by Seth Abramson
March 24, 2007: "Directions" by Erin Malone
March 20, 2007: "Doing Hegel's Laundry" by Melissa Tuckey
December 7, 2006: "Ghost Train" by Rhoda Janzen
September 19, 2006: "Blue Visits" by Rane Arroyo
June 25, 2006: "The Mortgaging of Self Is Done" by Aimée Sands
June 20, 2006: "Sisyphus" by Malcolm Alexander
March 31, 2006: from The Book of Zeros by Sam Reed
March 30, 2006: "What You See If You Use Water as a Mirror" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 28, 2006: "St. Francis in Winter" by Marianne Boruch
March 27, 2006: "Marianne Boruch" by Matthew Thorburn
January 13, 2006: "from Gomorrah, a sequence" by Tony Brinkley
January 4, 2006: "For Orts" by Ander Monson
January 1, 2006: "Milkweed" by Susan Maxwell
September 8, 2005: "Roman Elegy" by Michael Snediker
September 7, 2005: "Faced with 8:38" and "8:38 is straw" " Mary Molinary
September 5, 2005: "Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly" " Albert Goldbarth
July 23, 2005: "Elemental: Nitrogen" Suzanne Heyd
July 22, 2005: "The Blue-Gray Body of the Zambezi" Dawn Lonsinger
July 20, 2005: "Making History" and "A Disappearing Act" Karl Elder
March 4, 2005: "Catherine Blake" by Rebecca Dunham
March 3, 2005: "Cartographic" by Joshua Rivkin
March 2, 2005: "Turning 50" by Bruce A. Jacobs
August 28, 2004: "Obsolescence" by Leigh Anne Couch
August 27, 2004: "The Weight of the World" by Frank Steele
August 26, 2004: "For the Suicides" by Lola Haskins
August 25, 2004: "Half Life" by Reynolds Dixon
August 24, 2004: "The Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker" by Bruce Tindall
June 11, 2004: "Famish" by Lisa Furmanski
June 8, 2004: "A Short History of the Republic" by John Haines
March 7, 2004: "Waning Moon" by Conrad Hilberry
March 5, 2004: "Portrait of the Family Without a Father" by Ken Victor
March 4, 2004: "At the Intersection" by Andrea Heny
March 1, 2004: "Marriage Bed" by Annie Boutelle
December 23, 2003: "Exactly at midnight" by Margaret Aho
April 8, 2003: "The Totality of Facts" by Allan Peterson

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