The Strange Little Poem That Could: Thanks, Bayou Magazine.

The Strange Little Poem That Could: Thanks, Bayou Magazine.

THIS POEM WAS NOMINATED FOR A 2015 PUSHCART PRIZE:

The Loneliness of the Middle-Distance Transmissions Aggregator 

Maisto Middle-distance poem

It starts this way:

IT WAS PART OF A 3-POEM CYCLE THAT WON BAYOU MAGAZINE'S KAY MURPHY PRIZE. THE OTHERS WERE:

The Boys Spread Out and Are Attacking

MAISTO POEM THE_BOYS_SPREAD_OUT_AND_ARE_ATTACKING

which begins:

MAISTO POEM NARCOPASSPORTAGE.png

HERE DISPLAYED.

 

(all first published in Bayou Magazine 63, University of New Orleans, 2015)

 Jane Miller was the judge. Of the poems she wrote:

“The group of poems culminating in the post-apocalyptic 'The Loneliness of the Middle Distance Transmissions Aggregator,' with our destroyed environment for a subject, is terrifying and unsettling…A mere, singular voice tries to make sense, make life, out of chaos. Time, history, intimacy, and power, all these themes rise and fall in a lyricism that belies a dark, computerized world. The ambition of this poem is impressive."

Thanks, Jane. Thanks Bayou.