#benjamin schmitt

[antiochreview]

Antioch Review contributor Benjamin Schmitt is celebrating the release of his third book of poems, Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity. Of this new collection, poet and editor Lenny DellaRocca writes, “Benjamin Schmitt’s Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity dazzles and burns like a Roman candle between your ears...Place this book on your turntable, turn up the volume, and read it out loud.” Copies can be purchased here: https://www.claresongbirdspub.com/shop/featured-authors/benjamin-schmitt/

[punkswritepoems]

Dinner Table Refuge by @bens25 has been selected by StepAway Magazine as its Pick of the Month! 

[punkswritepoems]

Poet Benjamin Schmitt attacks topics that are avoided at the dinner table. He takes on depression, politics, religion, what might happen if zombies took over Seattle, and many other subjects. 

Benjamin Schmitt’s poems rage against fading summers and aristocrats, young love and guilt, bears and zombies, time travel and “robot bones”. The reader follows this dance of language where “chairs face inward to the swinging skies”, bears explore a “treatise on marshmallows” and a boy believes he can breathe lives on a neckline. Full of blood and sex and beasts, Schmitt eloquently captures the voice of today’s youth in the vein of the fictional Holden Caulfield. - Matthew E. Silverman, founder and managing editor, Blue Lyra Review

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[storyacious]

#Poetry Tuesday and we have 'Legend of a Perfume' by Benjamin Schmitt. Spanning continents and centuries, a beautiful narrative about the story behind a perfume and how such stories can still linger in collective memories. 

Sadness drifts from your neck; some melancholy perfume purchased at the market. Could this be the fabled Chinese bottle of perfume made in ancient Rome from gladiator sweat and roses?

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