The Cento for March 7, 2023
Mar 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
Jan 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
Dec 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
Sep 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
Jun 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
Apr 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
Jan 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
Dec 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
Nov 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
Oct 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
Sep 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
Jun 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
Jun 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
Sep 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
Jul 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
Sep 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
Apr 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
Mar 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
Feb 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
Jan 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
Dec 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
Nov 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
Oct 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
Sep 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