6x6 #17: I was ashamed of the poems, and still I'm ashamed

6×6 #17: I was ashamed of the poems, and still I’m ashamed

March 2009
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6×6 #17: I was ashamed of the poems, and still I’m ashamed

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"Some people want a pole to magnetize. A rock to lichen. A frame to rust."
— Mary Millsap

Details

Poems by James Copeland, Lucy Ives, Megan Kaminski, Mary Millsap, Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina, and Kevin Varrone.

 

This issue of 6×6 was designed by Will Hubbard. Cover offset printed by Polyprint & Design in NYC and letterpress printed at UDP.

Author

6×6 Poets

6×6 magazine included 6 poets in each issue.

6×6 was supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

ISSN: 1553-9459

Praise

Megan Kaminski, in 6×6 #17, presents untitled poems from a longer sequence, “Favored Daughter.” Dispensing with punctuation, she creates blocks of text, whose meanings hover and migrate… As with all her poems in this selection, the first word only is capitalized, making them function like stanzas. They are breath-blasts—a tiny pause, or caesura, thrown in the middle—the amount the poet can speak in one burst, getting it all down in time.
— Vincent Katz

Excerpt

From 6×6 #17

 

Truncated thoughts make way for daylight

create space for afternoon meanderings

are we doomed to watch and wait days

people walk and drive past

as we sit cloistered in half-language

imagining walls spill secrets to anxious limbs

spring breezes tuck in tight to eaves

remind us of the speaking world.

 

—Megan Kaminski

Details

, 52pp, W:7in x H:7in
Publication Date: March 1, 2009