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Francis Raven

Francis Raven is an editorial assistant at the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Broken Boulder press just recently published two chapbooks :"Notestalk" and "Notationing". His poems have been published in Pindeldyboz, Monkey Bicycle, Mudlark, Pavement Saw, Poethia, The In Posse Review, and The East Village, among others. Essays and articles of Mssr. Raven's have been published in Clamor, In These Times, Fulcrum, Rain Taxi, The New Colonist, Taint, and Pavement Saw.

 Articles by this Author

CORNERS FORMING ROOMS

        AND LIKE LORDS
        THE ANGLES WERE MET

        AND LIKE LOVE
        THE ARCS WERE ...

        tape hiss

        spicer's crazy
        after lorca

        after x after y after z

REDUNDANCY

        Fear, loss; "Attention Drivers
        the white curb is for..."
        I made up the rest of the sentence
        in my blue underwear at midnight,

LOSS

        A leaf colored barrette is camouflaged in the live-oak leaves, fallen.
        But
        someone's head is not down there. Someone's hair is not being held
        back