#stephen zerance

[pinksixty]

Gay man wins Pratt Library’s poetry contest Baltimore resident Stephen Zerance was named the 2017 winner of the Enoch Pratt Free Library/Poet Lore Poetry Contest.

[stephnz]

so...poetry? episode fourteen - reminds me of Ke$ha

in which Stephen Zerance and i talk about revising readings, being papered out from TOO MUCH DAMN SCHOOL, and poetry as a means of exploring the metaphysical other twitter - @stephnz instagram - @zer

Listen to me talk about poetry on the so...poetry? podcast! 

[stephnz]

On Caligula’s Playhouse:

"Stephen Zerance's poetry is the work of a wild original, and the poems in this collection--whose reveries call from madness' ledge--exhibit a restraint and artistry of classical proportions. Tonight, in Rome, the gorgeous ruin of the emperors lies strewn beside the everyday. In CALIGULA'S PLAYHOUSE a certain formal harmony meets our world's deepening dread. Zerance is a formidable poet and these poems are genius in their spare, unflinching gaze into the bath house of the self." - David Keplinger

[stephnz]

Now you've done it--

kicked a chair at the ex,  lost the keys, burned  the sweater, broke  the glass, the dirty dishes  stack higher. No returned  phone calls, messages, door  never buzzed, only happy when it buzzes and buzzes.

If you won the lottery, things  would change. Things  would be different. You’d stop biting your nails. You’d bite just one. Maybe. Eliminate  crow’s feet. Scrub the dirt out of pores. Clean. If  you won, you’d flee the neighborhood

for another. Begin the next procession,  the next trial. You’d walk it until you cycle back, until  you didn’t fuck up. Until  the next man you loved stays. If you won

the lottery, everything  would be different. Nothing  would change. The door bell would ring as it does, you’d answer  the door to what? Make  it up. Make it scary.

—Stephen Zerance

http://www.chelseastationmagazine.com/2014/09/now-youve-done-it.html

[stephnz]

Coming Soon

Stay tuned, I'm going to have two poems featured on the new Chelsea Station website soon!

[stephnz]

'My skin--deaf,' the narrator relates, as his family uses the famous Christmas Gift Guilt Trip to force him to conform to their notion of the masculine body. The poem is awkward, familiar, heartbreaking.

Sara Browning chooses her 2012 favorite poems.

[stephnz]

Read two of my poems

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/poetry-spotlight/09/18/stephen-zerance-lindsay-lohan/ Read my poem "Lindsay Lohan" here! Enjoy and "like" the page if you like it!