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Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 24, 2020 in Blogh, Poetry | 0 comments

North Star Redux

I’m very excited to have published a poem, North Star in the Whiskey Tit Journal. The other work is terrific, and it’s great to appear alongside so much...

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 16, 2020 in Blogh, The Vietnam Project, Writing | 0 comments

go while you can

This is a video of an Ithaca Spring Writes virtual event I did in late November, Mary Lorson’s Of Course. She reads and then I read, about 20 minutes in. My piece...

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 13, 2020 in Blogh, Fiction, ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir | 4 comments

ithaca times profile

Cara Hoffman wrote this profile of me for the Ithaca Times. Cara and I have been friends since 1999, when I read her her book Running for the first time. I fell in love...

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 20, 2020 in Blogh, Poetry | 2 comments

North Star

North Star1.It’s unclear to me where we are going.I see nothing but fog on the peripheryof the headlights, and brown leavesswirling in a circle of snow, windblowing...

Posted by jonfrankel on Mar 14, 2020 in Blogh | 4 comments

a fugue on the current crisis

The traffic in Saigon is a marvel of balletic brinksmanship as 8 million motor bikes behave like schools of fish, swarming over its streets and traffic circles. This is...

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 8, 2019 in Blogh, Poetry | 4 comments

FOR JOHN M.

Death Bed for John M My friend, an old ma Becomes a baby Swaddled in a sheet Pale hairless belly ballooning Blind hands pulling the air Stub of his penis pierced With a...

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