Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The cover of my second collection, The Glimmering Room, out in October (artwork by Elizabeth Huey).

Teaching!

I am teaching a 6-week class at the 92 Street Y Tribeca beginning on Tuesday, May 22 on Living Poets. We will be reading & discussing book from poets and then, the poet will come to the class to give a reading and to answer any questions we have. The poems and books we will be reading and meeting are: Jo Sarzotti (Mother Desert , Quinn Latimer (Rumored Animal), and Emily Fragos (Hostage). If you're interested, here is a link to that: http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Class/Living-Poets.aspx Also, I will be beginning round 2 of my salon at my home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, beginning August 4, a Saturday. We will be meeting from 3-6 for 8 weeks. Please email me at cindyskylar@yahoo.com if you are interested in joining us. In July, I am teaching at the Frost Place Festival and Conference on Poetry from July 15-21. Here is a link to that: http://www.frostplace.org/html/festival_intro.html Please email me with any questions.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

KINGDOM OF DIRT

FROM MY SECOND COLLECTION,THE GLIMMERING ROOM,FORTHCOMING FROM FOUR WAY BOOKS IN OCTOBER 2012.

Soon the ambassadors from the Netherworld
Will begin

Their jet-like descent. Death,
Disguised inside me, already,

As sleeze.
Grime and her magnificent seed. Brother Rainer

Clutching his Bible, hallucinating helicopters.
Brother Rainer, child-like and wrecked.

Infamy, and the cosmology of chronic
Raveling and unraveling. Or,

Displaced insanity. Dirty Cindy, little
Glitter of her father’s

Spit: invisible, androgynous, a fragment of
His, found at the bottom of his dream chest.

Draped in my black cape of smut glue and
Subterranean, they mistake me for

A man in drag in my nasty
Boots. Why just look: a manifestation

Of stars. Or, appoint me hustler of
Brutal Rainer and his kinky noir

Scheme: me, at thirteen, on the beach
In a candy-striped bikini.

In time or out of time,
Glamorine.

Groom of the Underworld, please
Come with me

To the discotheque at the end
Of the world. Piss-

Elegant at the halfway
House for the trashed and gone galore.

Meet me in the love-
Burned orchard

Where the beautiful doomed
Meet at last.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

My second collection, The Glimmering Room, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in October of 2012.

I will be teaching this summer at The Frost Conference on Poetry and Teaching from
June 24 - 28, 2012. Here is a link for that:

http://www.frostplace.org/html/conference-teaching.html

I am teaching a poetry workshop from my home beginning Saturday March 10. If you are interested in joining us email me at cindyskylar@yahoo.com

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Glimmering Room


My second collection, The Glimmering Room, is forthcoming from Four Way Books this October. When the book becomes available, I will provide links.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Poetry Workshop in the spring

I will be teaching a poetry workshop out of my home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn beginning the second Saturday in March. Email me if you're interested.

cindyskylar@yahoo.com

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Friday, December 10, 2010

Friday, August 13, 2010

Wednesday, August 11, 2010