April 21, 2016

• Greeting
• News and Jabber
• JUAN FELIPE HERRERA NAMED POET LAUREATE FOR SECOND TERM, WRITING APPS, AND MORE
• http://www.pw.org/content/juan_felipe_herrera_named_poet_laureate_for_second_term_writing_apps_and_more
• The Women Tell Their Stories
• The women tell their stories in Austin,
• they tower over the table, their hot work hands
• greet me, they speak of their children. The earth
• I think, oh, yes, the earth.
• Cloned maize men unload another ship through
• genetically altered skies and an MC-130 Combat Talon plane
• drops into Khundahar, Afghanistan—15,000 pound fuel
• air explosives, what is left now? A flower of ethylene and
• propylene, then a Cluster Bomb, filled
• with 202 "bomblets"—what am I saying:
• Better to say peanut butter, Pop Tarts,
• rice and potatoes instead, the same color of village fires,
• a yellow can comes down in the name of the Nomenclature.
• The question of Kabul, Kashmir, Fallujah
• comes up, the question of colonization and
• saliva, bacteria in the atoms of expansion drills
• into the howling child, this rubble boy:
• eat, step lightly on the mines
• of the Russian-American war, dear little one
• with your folded arms caressing a fender
• for shelter.
• [Image: https://poetsrountable.quip.com/-/blob/CcZAAAJUyyM/VijC1WiyBwTs3K4JUUfNMw]
• The Current Assignment
• Last Assignment
• Who did it?
• How did it go?
• Next Assignment
• Next Meeting
• May 5, 2016
• We will consider Gerard's proposal that we put together a book.