“New Ars Poetica” by Rebecca Foust (poetry ’10)
An excerpt from “New Ars Poetica” by Rebecca Foust (poetry ’10), published by Blackbird.
New Ars Poetica
This poem won’t sing on the sidewalk for dollar bills
or take penicillin; it’s disabled its airbags
and gone off the grid,
it’s allowing its id to have a say. This poem is not
your cure, sop, balm, or oasis of calm
in the world’s shitstorm.
