#roberto harrison

[vispoarchive]

Roberto Harrison. Tecs from Tropical Lung: Mitologia Panameña. Nion Editions, 2020, reprinted by petrichor, 2024.

[lifeinpoetry]

I feel tender in this moment. Over

and over I feel that words do not represent me.

— Roberto Harrison, from "Bridge of the World," Bridge of the World

[cameronklewis]

People Most Likely To... | Milwaukee Magazine Art directed by Rachel Stinebring

New portraits for Milwaukee Magazine’s Best Of 2017 issue!

Most likely to...make you laugh - Comedian David Louis Most likely to...make you cry - Poet Roberto Harrison Most likely to...steal the show - Drag show host Montell Infiniti Ross Most likely to...bust a move - Dancer Cedric Garner Most likely to...win a VMA - Director Cody LaPlant Most likely to...design your dream home - DIYer Jenni Radosevich

[horsepoems-blog]

Roberto Harrison | New Moon for Ecology | Bridge of the World

[lifeinpoetry]

I do not offer anything

but poems. But it breaks through my mouth to arrive at the hearts of the world, at the hearts of the horses

of the world, to allow us all to speak in silence.

— Roberto Harrison, from "Bridge of the World," Bridge of the World

[queenspoetlore]

Poetry Reading: Aja Couchois Duncan, Roberto Harrison, & Paolo Javier | November 13, 2021

Aja Couchois Duncan is a social justice coach and capacity builder of Ojibwe, French, and Scottish descent who lives on the ancestral and stolen land of the ...

[queenspoetlore]

Poetry Reading: Aja Couchois Duncan, Roberto Harrison, & Paolo Javier

Sat. Nov. 13 | 7 pm CDT | $Give What You Can | *HYBRID* In-person at Woodland Pattern and live streaming via Crowdcast.

Aja Couchois Duncan is a social justice coach and capacity builder of Ojibwe, French, and Scottish descent who lives on the ancestral and stolen land of the Coastal Miwok people. Her debut collection Restless Continent (Litmus Press, 2016) was selected by Entropy magazine as one of the best poetry collections of 2016 and awarded the California Book Award for Poetry in 2017. In 2020, Sweet Land—a collaborative opera project which brought together composers Raven Chacon and Du Yun, librettists Aja Couchois Duncan and Douglas Kearney, and co-directors Cannupa Hanska Luger and Yuval Sharon—was produced in the Los Angeles State Historic Park to critical acclaim. When not writing or working, Aja can be found running the west Marin hills with her Australian Cattle Dog Dublin, training with horses, or weaving small pine needle baskets. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human. Great Spirit knew it all along.

Roberto Harrison's poetry books include Tropical Lung: exi(s)t(s) (Omnidawn, 2021), Tropical Lung: Mitologia Panameña (Nion Editions, 2020), Yaviza (Atelos, 2017), Bridge of the World (Litmus Press, 2017), culebra (Green Lantern Press, 2016), bicycle (Noemi Press, 2015), Counter Daemons (Litmus Press, 2006), Os (subpress, 2006), as well as many chapbooks. With Andrew Levy, Harrison edited the poetry journal Crayon from 1997 to 2008. He is also the editor of Bronze Skull Press which has published over 20 chapbooks, including the work of many Midwestern poets. Most recently Harrison served as a co-editor for the Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance anthology. He was the Milwaukee Poet Laureate for 2017-2019 and is also a visual artist. He lives in Milwaukee with his wife, the poet Brenda Cárdenas.

The former Queens Borough Poet Laureate (2010-2014), Paolo Javier was born in the Philippines and grew up in Las Piñas, Metro Manila; Katonah, Westchester County; El-Ma’adi, Cairo; Burnaby and North Delta, Metro Vancouver. He’s produced three albums of sound poetry with Listening Center (David Mason), including the limited edition pamphlet/cassette Ur’lyeh/ Aklopolis and the booklet/cassette Maybe the Sweet Honey Pours. The recipient of a 2021 Rauschenberg Foundation Artist Grant, his fifth full-length book of poetry, O.B.B.—a (weird postcolonial techno dream-pop) comics poem that also includes illustrations by Alex Tarampi and Ernest Concepcion—is just out from Nightboat Books.

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[jshoulson]

Today’s Poem

absorbent heart --Roberto Harrison

your values aren’t right for this age or memory

color line. globes of the Sea survive revelation

as the Moon reflects its own interior revolver. I live

as a condemned callused body under salt water sand, far from your destructions. where are

the people of the lost (shut out the hate) arc, in a service (love so remote) to more water? worn

eclipse of a human emergence, foils of the barricade a face speaks

from isomorphic ferns lines of sacrifice burn the god of a naked mammal

I am the Loon “the silence of our beautiful consciousness”

“in love with everything you make it impossible to be myself in this place. where can I go?” – Baraka

attentive score for the core of death: black, red, and white as I wake

an expansive heart absorbs all the evil a veil of the world

and cancels the Loon’s empty submergence

for more of the deep currents of the light’s darkest refuge. I am the Loon

I hunt with blood in my eyes

I wander in the morning and float above the wound fish of the spirits