sustaining creative aliveness while working a full time job

tactics for lunchtime poets / writing as identity / extreme commitments

Jiayue Li Illustrations, a San Francisco based artist. in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth / between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles / I look / at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world (Having a Coke with You by Frank O’ Hara) The Lunch Poems (1950-60s) were a series of poems written on Frank O’Hara’s lunch breaks while he worked at the Museum of Modern Art curating exhibitions. O’Hara’s distinct un-fussy contemporary style broke poetic ground in stark contrast to the more conservative academic…

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