#katy lederer

[cmacaulays]

noah kahan / katy lederer / hozier

[lifeinpoetry]

In the temper and the tantrum, in the well-kept arboretum / I am waiting, like an animal, / For poetry.

Katy Lederer, from “That Everything’s Inevitable,” The Heaven-Sent Leaf

[allyourprettywords]

“That Everything’s Inevitable,” Katy Lederer

That everything's inevitable. That fate is whatever has already happened. The brain, which is as elemental, as sane, as the rest of the processing universe is. In this world, I am the surest thing. Scrunched-up arms, folded legs, lovely destitute eyes. Please insert your spare coins. I am filling them up. Please insert your spare vision, your vigor, your vim. But yet, I am a vatic one. As vatic as the Vatican. In the temper and the tantrum, in the well-kept arboretum I am waiting, like an animal, For poetry.

[uglyducklingpresse]

6x6 final issue (#36) release party

On September 8, UDP celebrated the final launch of our long-running poetry magazine, 6x6, at the Knockdown Center in Queens. Poetry was read, music was played, and 6x6 corner confetti was strewn...

Readers:

Anna Gurton-Wachter Anselm Berrigan Bridget Talone Chia-Lun Chang Katy Lederer Kristen Gallagher Sarah Wang Ted Dodson Thibault Raoult Tony Iantosca

Music:

Daniel Carter and Loren Connors Horse Lords Foamola I Feel Tractor Matt Mottel

6x6 #36 features poems by Anselm Berrigan, Chia-Lun Chang, Cheryl Clarke, Lisa Fishman, Vasilisk Gnedov (translated by Emilia Loseva & Danny Winkler), and Sarah Wang.

Our thanks to Kevin Remy for taking these photographs.

[jshoulson]

Today’s Poem

That Everything's Inevitable --Katy Lederer

That everything's inevitable. That fate is whatever has already happened. The brain, which is as elemental, as sane, as the rest of the processing universe is. In this world, I am the surest thing. Scrunched-up arms, folded legs, lovely destitute eyes. Please insert your spare coins. I am filling them up. Please insert your spare vision, your vigor, your vim. But yet, I am a vatic one. As vatic as the Vatican. In the temper and the tantrum, in the well-kept arboretum I am waiting, like an animal, For poetry.

[jshoulson]

Today’s Poem

That Everything’s Inevitable --Katy Lederer

That everything’s inevitable. That fate is whatever has already happened. The brain, which is as elemental, as sane, as the rest of the processing universe is. In this world, I am the surest thing. Scrunched-up arms, folded legs, lovely destitute eyes. Please insert your spare coins. I am filling them up. Please insert your spare vision, your vigor, your vim. But yet, I am a vatic one. As vatic as the Vatican. In the temper and the tantrum, in the well-kept arboretum I am waiting, like an animal, For poetry.

[bibliomancyoracle]

The world is full of lulls and shocks. To describe them all would take a million lives. 

*

from “Fetus Papyraceus” by Katy Lederer

[bibliomancyoracle]

The world is full of lulls and shocks. To describe them all would take a million lives. 

*

from “Fetus Papyraceus” by Katy Lederer