As a visionary artist, I use my inner emotion and intuition to guide me. I do not work in the traditional process that incorporates sketching and planning. After that first line, shape, or color makes its way to the canvas, I get lost in non-thought. […]

The following poets and poems have been nominated by 10×3 plus for 2010: Michael Gessner, “HOODOOS” Michael Gessner, “PARTHENOGENESIS” Mary Christine Delea, “Occupants” Lamont Palmer, “Politician in a Boat” Michael Bazzett, “Rooms and Days” Sonja James, “Passing Storm at Woods Hole” PUSHCART PRIZE selections for […]

Delicate childhood flowersflourishing in shady places.Raindrops with second thoughtstrying to get back to the sun,or the sun with second thoughtswanting back what it didn’t needbillions of years before.No wonder they smell so fragile,an almost indecisive smell,not knowing where to belong,here, in shady placesor back at […]

from “Celebration” “Brilliant, this day–a young virtuoso of a day.Morning shadows cut by sharpest scissors,deft hands. And every prodigy of green–whether it’s ferns or lichens or needlesor impatient points of bud on spindly bushes–greener than ever before.” from This Great Unknowing, LAST POEMSDenise LEVERTOV

Enfolded by pure darknessa train slips through the hills,past the occasional litter of homesleaking yellow light. In a kitchen windowthe silhouette of an enormous man who thinks,gazing at the train,he could love anyone on board. Mark JACKLEYCollected in THERE WILL BE SILENCE WHILE YOU WAITPlain […]

Returning in darknessto her mother’s, my two-year-old glancedat our neighborhood woodsand whispered, Listen, monsters. Before I could reason with hershe climbed into my arms,placed a tiny hand on my mouthand commanded, Shhh. Mark JACKLEYCollected in THERE WILL BE SILENCE WHILE YOU WAIT, Plain View Press

Tables are often “lousy with glasses”,a messy significance on Broadway.Will we see the world as it is or asit was, when it was only a globe in class?Often lives soar wildly like the Luntsover the East River. This is theatre,the cynical lessons taught and told,the […]

Congratulations to the following nominees: “Forever” — John Kay“Elegy for No One” — Ron Padgett“Primavera” — George Szirtes“Winter Walk” — Llewellyn McKernan“The Long Goodbye” — Llewellyn McKernan“Still As I Was” — Dzvinia Orlowsky Thank you to all the 10×3 poets who appeared in the #4 […]

At these hours a girl shows me the scarshe earned after her father’s chainsawbucked against her calf while he evenedthe backyard stumps. “It cut clear to my meat,”she says. “They had to fly me to the city.”The rough, shiny lump is not grotesque.Her leg has […]

“For many years a nearly round granite stoneabout two feet in diameter sat at the easterlycorner of the front steps of the store nowowned by Frank E. Brown. Few men in the towncould lift it off the ground.”–Fred Pitkin’s HISTORY OF MARSHFIELD, VERMONT, 1947 The […]