National Poetry Month Spotlight: Stephen Cain

We’re back with the final feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. We are closing things out with Stephen Cain!

Stephen is one our oldest friends in the literary community, having gone to school with Jay and Hazel back in the day. We have published four of his groundbreaking poetry collections, including I Can Say Interpellation, Etc Phrases, False Friends, and Walking and Stealing. In 2014 we also published bp beginnings, an anthology of early bpNichol poems that Stephen edited.

Without further ado, please enjoy “Christie Pits (2017/05/12)” from Walking and Stealing, which is available for purchase from your local bookseller or through our eStore! Get 25% off poetry titles until April 30th!

Thank you for celebrating National Poetry Month with us!

2. Christie Pits (2017/05/12)

Death slips

Peristalsis panic

Glop dog

From the master’s throat

Appropriative response

Think in synonyms

Settler dissimilitude

Slime always surfaces

Leper City Landlords

Emotional miscue

Negative as charged

Knot knavery

Havoc herald

Galactic snafu

That’s the pitch

Perfect perfidy

Unearned erring

Complicated or kinder

Morgellon music

Threnody park

 

Greetings from Grimm

Wolf missal

Hymnals for hymens

Grand slam guignol

Shiva shakes

Hanuman howls

Pantheon pillage

Mining myths

Back to racists

Billy-bat bragging

To make scarce & scared

Break the Fourth Estate gates

Our own owed