Nance Van Winckel is the author of a book of visual poetry (Pleiades Press, 2016) and six other collections of poems, four books of stories, and a novel. She’s received two NEA Poetry Fellowships, exhibited collages in Northwest Arts Center and other places, and serves as Visual Poetry Editor for POETRY NORTHWEST.
–a cento of lines of Christine Gosnay, Michelle Brittan Rosado, Russell Salomon, and, Theodore Roethke
Slow, slow as a fish she came,
A green angel swaying branches.
The wide streams go their way.
She went in slowly, and found him.
She watched the river wind itself away.
Everything undoes itself.
He woke with mountains in his knees.
She saw her father shrinking in his skin.
She thought a bird and it began to fly.
The light cried out, and she was there to hear.
The wings have fallen off. The arms too.
It was as if she tried to walk in hay.
Once she knew how to run.
She came to the western river,
breathed as if moving a hand toward a candle.
Source & Method
Karen Greenbaum-Maya believes that if you want to hit someone with a fish, you should just hit them with a fish, unless you don’t have a fish.
Photo by Alexander Schimmeck
D i s i n t e g r a t i o n
The Ballad of the Clairvoyant Widow
Three Collages
April 20th, 2020 in email subject lines
Three collages with text from William Carlos Williams’ “Paterson”
Three collages/erasures with text from Steppenwolf
Cento: We were here—we saw sorrow
Craig Arnold as Eustace Clarence Scrubb as Dragon
Surrender
The Boy is Mine (An Erasure)
The Gray Man