The Cento for March 7, 2023 March 7, 2023 Centos & 2022-2023 Never Blinking, Never Not Longing I could never become a speaker. I could never master the art of winning the hearts of millions. Mine has been The Cento for January 3, 2023 January 3, 2023 centos & 2022-2023 You whispered back to me your favorite line, not too much blood, but it hurt, bodies twitching to Hacket’s horn as it smoked the blues, always a The Cento for December 7, 2021 December 7, 2021 centos & 2021-2022 I Confidence is the storm playing them on the frets of an invisible violin. II Perhaps the world will end at comic con. You don’t have to belong. The September 2020 Cento September 4, 2020 centos & 2020-2021 1. Fingerprints of random voyeurs did not dispel the anger of the saints How much exists in a dying brain? Let’s not stop reinventing love. We step The Cento for June 3, 2020 June 3, 2020 2019-2020 & centos I. In lieu of flowers, please send Justice, a blood-splattered crescendo, or else some commoner will knock our fat asses off our golden seats. Who The Cento for May 5, 2020 May 13, 2020 2019-2020 & centos I. Not to touch, not to breathe, not to meet, scissors scraping the face of god. How many more nights are left before this magic ends? The plague is The Cento Zoom Edition for April 7, 2020 April 7, 2020 2019-2020 & centos First Tuesdays went virtual for National Poetry Month! We held our reading over Zoom and it was, by all accounts, a success. Sokunthary Svay, our The Cento for January 7, 2020 January 7, 2020 2019-2020 & centos 1. Undulating and free, the strippers were masturbating customers on the garden bed of Blake’s fairy procession, this movie shot in hell, coiled The Cento for December 3, 2019 December 3, 2019 2019-2020 & centos Waxed figures burned outside the leather windows. Give my kidneys to kid drummers. You courted me with cucumber soup. The strongest coffee can’t The Cento for November 5, 2019 November 5, 2019 2019-2020 & centos 1. Amulet I took back with me to sleep, his penis is like a dark flagpole swaying in the wind of his dreams, there was not an inch of you I didn’t The Cento for October 1, 2019 October 4, 2019 2019-2020 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. On October 1, those The Cento for September 3, 2019 September 4, 2019 2019-2020 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. On September 3rd, The Cento for June 5, 2018 June 5, 2018 2017-2018 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. This poem is composed The Cento for June 5, 2018 June 5, 2018 2017-2018 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. This poem is composed The Cento for September 6, 2016 September 6, 2016 2016-2017 & centos 1 Everyone takes sides. “Maybe it’s a terrorist attack!” “We saw the bodies in the box, a knotty rope of some version of the American Dream, except The First Tuesdays Centos for the 2015-2016 Season July 1, 2016 2015-2016 & centos In 2015-2016, it became clear to me that the communal centos we compose during the open mic at First Tuesdays had become central not just to the The Cento for September 2, 2014 September 2, 2014 2014-2015 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. This cento is made up The Cento for April 1, 2014 April 1, 2014 2013-2014 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. This cento is The Cento for March 4, 2014 March 4, 2014 2013-2014 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. This cento is The Cento for February 4, 2014 February 4, 2014 2013-2014 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. This cento is Cento for January 7, 2014 January 7, 2014 2013-2014 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. The cento from Cento for December 1, 2013 December 1, 2013 2013-2014 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. The cento from Cento for November 5, 2013 November 5, 2013 2013-2014 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. Unfortunately, I no The Cento for October 1, 2013 October 1, 2013 2013-2014 & centos During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. On October 1, 2013, The Cento for September 3, 2013 September 3, 2013 2013-2014 & centos The cento is a verse form composed entirely of lines from poems by other poets. According to Wikipedia, the cento originated in the third or fourth