April Freely is a poet and essayist whose writing has appeared in Forklift, OH, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from the Ohio Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
April Freely
Various Poems
snow is a mistake foreshadowing the end of all color
as I sit on the tarmac 16D in the specific darkness of a winter
night here comes the scatter here comes the loose edge
April Freely
What are 2-3 books (regardless of genre) that you’ve read over the last year or less that really blew your hair back?
I'm particularly excited about two books of photography, both with a documentary feeling to them:
Street Cops by Jill Freedman published in 1981, which includes black-and-white photography opposite what appears to be direct quotations from the cops Freedman photographed.
Medicine's Great Journey: One Hundred Years of Healing, created by Smolan & Coles with Eds. Richardson, Chermayeff & Walker.
I'm also having a fun time exploring a book with a monster of a title: Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004,The Joy of Cooking: Airport Novel Musical Poem Painting Film Photo Hallucination Landscape by Tan Lin.