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Poems from Nancy Everett’s Lexica chapbook
are the winners of the 2004 Baltimore Review and
2004 Mid-American Review James Wright Poetry Award
contests.Her work has also appeared in Fourteen Hills,
Wisconsin Review, Patterson Review, Nimrod, Runes, Spoon
River Quarterly, and Poetry Motel. She was
a finalist in contests administered by River Styx, Two
Rivers Review (second place), and The Cream City
Review. Her chapbook, Juliet as Herself, was
a finalist in the “Discovery”/The Nation
contest and was the winner of the 2004 Hudson Valley Writers'
Center Slapering Hol chapbook contest. It can be ordered
for $12 (plus shipping) at http://www.writerscenter.org
.She holds a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz,
where she worked closely with Ray Carver. Her website is
http://home.earthlink.net/~evertays/.
Her
poems can be read at her website: http://home.earthlink.net/~evertays/index.html.
Nancy
holds a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz, where
she worked closely with Ray Carver. She works by the light
of the day as a director of marketing in education services.
See
more poems:
Email
Nancy at nancynilene@yahoo.com
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Glossolalia
| Gam:
1. A herd of whales or a social congregation of whalers,
especially at sea. 2. The sound produced by the mastication
of soft foods. |
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We
race through the thundering Missouri night, our lips moving,
muted, luminescent. Imagining the enormous labile sounds. |
| Ganesh:
(Hinduism) The god of wisdom and the remover of obstacles,
depicted as a short fat man with an elephant's head. |
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We
howl for one so unlikely we cannot conceive his enormous
improbability. |
| Garcia
Lorca: Spain's leading modern poet. He was executed during
the Spanish Civil War. |
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“I
want you to remember I am still alive…
that I am the elephantine shadow of my own tears.” |
| Glissade:
A controlled slide used in descending a steep icy or snowy
incline. |
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A
lifetime after your death, this memory is still a treacherous
skid. |
| Glom:
1. (Slang) To seize; grab. 2. To look or stare at. |
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So
I confiscated you. Your small self is hidden in the eyes
of my tongue. |
| Guillemet:
Either of a pair of punctuation marks («) or (»)
used in some languages, such as French and Russian, to
mark the beginning and end of a quotation. |
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«The
last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to
put first.» -- Blaise Pascal |
| Gyve:
A shackle or fetter. |
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The
want of you hobbles me. Let’s start with that. |
Copyright
© Nancy Taylor Everett
Winner
of the 2004 James Wright Poetry Award from the Mid-American
Review
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