A new poem and recording by alumnus and former Beebe Fellow Matthew Olzmann (poetry, ’09) appears online at Fogged Clarity:
Meditation of a Foot Solidier Nearing Medusa’s Sculpture Garden
So these are the monuments.
And these are the faces of the inevitable.
And if I am made one of them, rendered
motionless, made
marble by the gorgon’s stare, then
help me celebrate the abrupt
tombstone my torso becomes.
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Continue reading or listen online at Fogged Clarity.