Two Poems
P.S. (Henri Michaux)
Just one thing more I promise.
Do you have rain too? Drainpipes and waterfalls?
(Did you tell me already?)
The flowing water gives me the chills.
Not of course when it’s warm.
How do I feel? Ask me tomorrow!
The cold is so isolating
which is not the case when it’s hot.
Just tell me for whatever it’s worth
(from the bottom of your heart)
how do you go about making sense of even a part of it?
UNTITLED
Logo (Muse of NYC awnings, storefronts,
plaques on outside walls of apartment buildings,
permission to cross when the light changes, etc.)
meets Erato, Verismo, Impasto, and Harpo
for brunch/early lunch in the West Village.
Charles North
Charles North has published twelve books of poems, three books of critical prose, and collaborations with artists and other poets. With James Schuyler, he edited the poet/painter anthologies Broadway and Broadway 2. His What It is Like: New and Selected Poems headed NPR's Best Poetry Books of 2011, and Everything and Other Poems (2020) was a N.Y. Times New and Noteworthy Book. He has received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, two NEA grants, four Fund for Poetry Awards, and a Poets Foundation Award. He lives with his wife, the painter Paula North, in New York City.
Kathryn Lynch
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Kathryn Lynch received her undergraduate degree from William Smith College in Geneva, NY, and an MFA at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. She was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA artist Fellow in Painting in 2018. She has been invited to Skowhegan, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Foundation and The Vermont Studio Center. Since earning her MFA, Lynch has held solo exhibitions and participated in well over thirty group shows both nationally and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA and Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, as well as many corporate collections, including Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and the Millennium Art Collection in the Ritz Carlton, Battery Park, in NYC. The artist lives in Catskill, NY, and works in a curated artist campus called Foreland.