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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		John Keene John Keene is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations (New Directions, 1995), and of the poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006), with artwork by Christopher Stackhouse. A longtime member of the Dark Room Writers Collective of Cambridge and Boston and a Graduate Fellow of Cave Canem, he teaches courses in fiction and cross-genre writing, American, African-American and African Diasporic literature, aesthetics, and literary translation at Northwestern University.

Ten Things I Do Everyday John Keene

after Ted Berrigan Floss my throat wash my feet then glower kiss Curtis at 7:30 to shake him feed Kitty philosophical tenders stroll the valley of dearth to Journal Square keep the faith like a Benedictine under the Hudson Work like a yoyo nap like bear address endless e-mails to forgotten writers jack the meter to stand tall drink lust as if it were spring water walk through the Mews when the coast is near leave my friends and shadows generous margins for error

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