Truck's new driver/editor for December 2016

Please welcome Phil Garrison, who will be driving the Truck through December.

And many thanks to Ric Carfagna for taking us on the road during November.

Truck's editor-drivers, past and present, as of Dec. 1, 2016

Present

 Philip Garrison


Past

Apr. 2011 -- Kate Schapira
May 2011 -- Wendy Battin
June 2011 -- Frank Parker
July 2011 --  Skip Fox
Aug. 2011 -- Ken Wolman
Sept. 2011 -- Michael Tod Edgerton
Oct. 2011 -- Kelly Cherry
Nov. 2011 -- Andrew Burke
Dec. 2011 -- Lewis LaCook

Jan. 2012 --  Larissa Shmailo
Feb. 2012 -- Gerald Schwartz
Mar. 2012 -- Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
Apr. 2012 -- Lynda Schor
May 2012 -- David Graham
June 2012 -- Lars Palm
July 2012 --  Elizabeth Switaj
Aug. 2012 --  rob mclennan
Sept. 2012 -- Georgios Tsangaris
Oct. 2012 -- Douglas Barbour
Nov. 2012 -- Dirk Vekemans 
Dec. 2012 -- Erik Rzepka

Jan. 2013 -- Alan Britt
Feb. 2013 -- Mark Weiss
Mar. 2013-- Mary Kasimor
Apr. 2013-- John M. Bennett

May 2013-- Orchid Tierney
June 2013--Victoria Marinelli
July 2013 -- Volodymyr Bilyk
Aug. 2013 -- David Howard
Sept. 2013 -- Philip Meersman
Oct. 2013 -- Chris Lott
Nov. 2013 -- Alexander Cigale
Dec. 2013 -- Catherine Daly

Jan. 2014 -- Maria Damon
Feb. 2014 -- John Oughton
Mar. 2014 -- Colin Morton and MaryLee Bragg
Apr. 2014 -- Alan Sondheim
May 2014 -- Glenn Bach
June 2014 -- Bill Pearlman
July 2014 -- Edgar Gabriel Silex
Aug. 2014 -- Jerry McGuire
Sept. 2014 -- Karri Kokko
Oct. 2014 -- Márton Koppány
Nov. 2014 -- Anny Ballardini
Dec. 2014 -- Chris Lott

Jan. 2015 -- Marc Vincenz
Feb. 2015 -- mIEKAL aND
Mar. 2015 -- Eileen Tabios
Apr. 2015 -- Crag Hill
May 2015 -- Rudolfo Carrillo
June 2015 -- Gwyn McVay
July 2015 -- Matt Margo
Aug. 2015 -- Volodymyr Bilyk
Sept. 2015 -- Stephen Vincent
Oct. 2015 -- Maxianne Berger
Nov. 2015 -- Alexander Jorgensen
Dec. 2015 -- Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Jan. 2016 -- Michael Rothenberg
Feb. 2016 -- CL Bledsoe
Mar. 2016 -- Paul Sampson
Apr. 2016 -- Lynda Schor
May 2016 -- Allen Bramhall
June 2016 -- Joanne Howard
July 2016 -- Larry Goodell
Aug. 2016 -- Lori Horvitz
Sept. 2016 -- Tero Hannula
Oct. 2016 -- Laura Young
Nov. 2016 -- Ric Carfagna

Hank Lazer

hlazer@ua.edu

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creeley ask

charles bernstein

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JIM COHN

jameslewiscohn@gmail.com 

Writing Professor Zhang After The 2016 Election

Dear Professor Zhang,

I have to agree with you that the status quo lost this election. But the Status quo, as you point out among your own leaders, remains. Take Climate change & other serious environmental problems. Trump is more Like Chairman Mao than he realizes. Regarding trade & tariffs, consider The following equation: emerald rotten teeth equals orange hair-weave. All I did at Trump University was surf! The “school” had less chance of Success than Wang Wei finding his way back to Shangri-La a second time. If you thought more like Trump, you would complain that American Poets are weak. They’ve unstable brainwaves. Their poems have no Stamina. More blood gushes out of their verse than all the martial arts Films ever made. 

27 November 2016

Barry Wallenstein

barrywall22@gmail.com

How Fast

One day in summer

an alien from Mars or somewhere

landed and spoke to me

from his busy mouth:

“Your hours, like rats

will keep coming

and pile high as Everest,

before that long drop down,

too fast for you to frame

or see your minutes,

their delights, as you fall.”

Without a second to think,

sweat, or parry, I reposted:

“Remove your clock

and your foul mouth too -

back to Mars;

I’ve hours enough in this world

but not a minute to spare

for your vision or venom.

The Imp Speaks

I may be too pooped to prove the point,

as we say in the lands of frolic,

but I’m still perky

and can do the do

when my turn comes around,

and can climb the banyan tree

limb by limb to where the snake and tiger

wrap themselves in the myth of the manger;

and should you call up “when you reach the top,

toss me a kiss with your fingers,”

I’ll do just that – with the spark I’ve left,

more tired by then than ever I remember.

Files

Professor Mathe, emeritus now,

bends over his files –

old files boxed in old oak –

pulls them out by their worn tabs

by ones and twos into the fire

in a hurry, with august anger,

that self-mocking grin.

“That’s that for that,” he chortles,

clearing out obsolescence;

there’s a long pause before some prospect

might swim into focus. 

“One ending need not presage another”

is another sentence he likes to repeat.

So he sits, his fingers twiddling,

straight-backed, practicing with his yo-yo

and conjuring time beyond limits

where, through the doors of the laboratory,

we hear mice singing, men chirping,

and women obeying the moon,

while singing aloud to a randy tune. 

Jim Behrle

jimbehrle@gmail.com 

Sexual Affirmation

Trumpets are announcing the tragedy of love

Poems are about moonlight in a swarm of analogies

I stand in clover in closer communion wild-eyed

When the mood strikes fall whisper Waiting for ideas

Into a Polaroid photo presuppose the purpose of flesh

I haunt the Earth a poet inside the last womb

You are with me in a plastic bag

Trash in the groin hastens our endless yawp

Would you lie with me here

MAKE BOSTON POETRY GREAT AGAIN

No one puts bunny in a corner

All my friends are leaving New York

And somehow I always forget about the round in the chamber

"So let's restart the show that started at nine"

Soon there will be no stars left in the night sky

I just flipped a few cars onto their sides

Today was a tough day to be a Bernie Bro 

It's like that time they canceled "My Little Pony"

Meanwhile Pokemon Go has melted down my phone

In soccer matches they shouldn't give out yellow cards 

They should just spank players

Wake up with a nosebleed

To all the Republicans who've been trying to bust 

Hillary Clinton for the last 25 years: 

it's possible that she is just way smarter than you

There is a place called Whiskey Island in Cleveland. 

This is a place I hope to visit and then wake up 

Screaming from a ditch.

Until then I'll be watching Fox and Friends with Benefits

Under a Zappa Moon

But how can we make Boston Poetry great again? 

Possibly by wearing pilgrim hats with big buckles all over town