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Joanna Klink

Joanna Klink’s most recent book of poems is Raptus. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Montana. Her new book is forthcoming in 2015.

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Poetry
Did you stagger back to her
            or did you float
Did you wheel into that decade
                        once madly lost

On Surmising

Joanna Klink

Poetry
Who lives where summer  ends knows the hard cold of               autumn is blissfully         ...

Aubade

Joanna Klink

Poetry
Caravans of wind, a cast-over  starlessness. Is the brunt  of taking leave mine,              ...

Aubade

Joanna Klink

Arts in Society

Novenary

River. Riverline of moon.  Along the bank‚ crows dragging their wings‚  a black

Joanna Klink

Poetry

I would remain by night with you
who, having held me once, wrapped everything I knew
into my sleeping...

I Would Remain by Night with You

Joanna Klink

Poetry

In Youna Kwak’s poems you can see traces of the writers she loves: the hallucinatory intensity of Sylvia Plath...

Poet's Sampler: Youna Kwak

Youna Kwak, Joanna Klink

Arts in Society

Winter Field

What better witness than this evening snow, its steady blind quiet, its eventual completeness

Joanna Klink

Arts in Society

Sea by Dusk

Comes to gather you from clocks and says be moon,  be progress. Gathers the bitter fact of

Joanna Klink

Arts in Society

Poet's Sampler: Joanna Klink

Joanna Klink is a love poet. Under the sign of the hanged man—le pendu—true-love comes to pass

Joanna Klink

Arts in Society

Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.

How is it with you, that you do bend your eye on vacancy, and with the incorporeal air hold

Joanna Klink

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