Four Poems
a Poem (a Shed)
Rode a magazine
to excess-- the flanges
askance, like
flowering. Indignity lies
in the shimmering leaves.
Amidst them odd apples.
Amidst a thinning
onward speak.
Terrible what they
think sometimes. In
the rain.
Timeout (Magnolia)
Indices & lexicons
& little lambsy
falling rock. The feral
stoners, the famous
ginmilled insecticide.
Thinking too much,
fell off. Found out. Fell
in love. In that order.
No breeze today, in the
breeze.
Proun Room
The only reason
hi everyone
poetry of old
attitudes said the
inside
hi everyonein Hanover
(behind us the
infinite meant
the concrete meant
the casualties.
Orson Lozowick &
the stars.
I've gone to a clinic.
A streetlight.
Bedrune
in the quartier of perdition
in the wide population classified as a medical problem
in recent dramatists who knew the most about the earth
the rent-seeking behaviors, as in 1858
each hospital, each palace
each pantaloonery, each puppet-show
the breezy satirical world
Schoenberg reject wears a chain like
the street that you look at every day
Rod Smith
Rod Smith is the author of Touché (Wave Books, 2015), Deed (University of Iowa Press, 2007), Music or Honesty (Roof Books, 2003), and The Good House (Spectacular Books, 2001). He edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. He has taught at The Iowa Writers' Workshop, The Maryland Institute College of Art, and The Corcoran College of Art + Design. Smith edited The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley (University of California Press, 2014) with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker.
Agnese Guido
Agnese Guido (Copertino 1982) lives and works in Milan. Graduated in painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, she has participated in several exhibition projects in Italy and abroad such as "Italian Painting today" (Triennale, Milan), Untitled Art Fair in Miami, and several personal exhibitions in Milan.
Her work has been published by Artmaze Mag and Elephant Mag in London and in Layout Magazine, ATP diary in Italy and American Chordata in the United States.
Her work is an intuitive research on the symbolism of images through painting and drawing; seeking the poetic and at the same time paradoxical and disturbing side of reality, she tells us stories in which the gap between objects and human beings is nuanced and malleable, as well as that between image and word, taking us into an anthropomorphic dimension where objects show us human feelings and figures are pretexts for depicting ideas, as in an allegory of the contemporary.
Her most recent research goes towards a more mysterious, evocative but at the same time carnal dimension in which the depiction of the human figure and the body is more frequent; in fact, the unpredictability of the subjects is a key element of her research as it constitutes the intuitive nature of his approach, aimed at building a personal universe in which the subjects are both the characters that inhabit it and the codes to decipher it.