#ken arkind

[buttonpoetry]

When we are gone, what tangible life will be left for us? Will the servers continue to hum, their tiny lights like candles flickering in a lonely shrine?

Ken Arkind, “David”

[thebigttree]

Poetry Rec:

An experiment in noise, in A sharp major by Ken Arkind

My LA teacher introduced the class to it and I was surprised to find i actually really like it. Here’s one of my favorite parts:

“Be careful, it is a weapon and can hurt people, their ears will not be ready for your anthem. Speak with purpose, sound without shape is static, and you were not born a dead channel.”

enjoy!

[buttonpoetry]

Could you make this wheelchair feel like my father’s shoulders? Invent a makeup that prevents the bruises, instead of just covering them up?

Ken Arkind, "God Box" (CUPSI 2014)

[buttonpoetry]

The profile remained like a digital tombstone. Not a day goes by without people leaving messages, poems, or pictures on his wall the way one would leave flowers at a gravesite.

FROM THE VAULT! Ken Arkind - "David" (CUPSI 2014)

Ken Arkind, performing during the Penmanship Books reading at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Become a member! Support Button Poetry.

[buttonpoetry]

Could you make this wheelchair feel like my father’s shoulders?

Ken Arkind - "God Box" (CUPSI 2014)

[somewaystired]

“I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.” ― Jean Ingelow

[sexpositivepunk]

Kenneth Arkind performs For Wes

[terra-incognita-x]

Forgiveness is the first step to renaming yourself. It is the act of no longer aching for what has been stolen from you

My name is a poem: Ken Arkind