Shorties

The queens prove that it's not the size of the ship but the motion etc etc in this episode devoted to short poems.

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Poems we mention in the show include:

A.R. Ammons's "Their Sex Life"

Rae Armantrout's "Anti-Short Story" and "Custom"

Mahogany L. Browne's "Marigold." Listen to it read here.

Andrea Cohen's "After" and "Matinee" and "Flight Pattern" and "Ghosting"

Robert Creeley, "The Answer"

Jim Harrison's "Another Country" and "Barking"

Jane Hirshfield's "Like Others" and to "The Woman, The Tiger." You can hear her read that poem here (at the 18:12 mark).

Sandra Lim, "Just Disaster" and "At the Other End of the Wire" and "Endings"

Listen to Sandra Lim read her poems (~40 minutes) with many short poems at the end. 

Samuel Menashe's "Adam Means Earth" and "Apotheosis"

Harryette Mullen's "Way Opposite"

Kay Ryan's "Winter Fear" 

Listen/watch the music video for Gilette's "Short, Short Man" here.