Vlad's Poetry Pick -- Steven D Schroeder

Here is "Clockwork" by Steven D Schroeder


Clockwork

In the 27 seconds
tacked on the end of the calendar,
she catalogs closets. Meanwhile,
the family Labrador tears

a Styrofoam stem from the P
in the baby’s name to make D
for dogged, and in the den
downstairs, the aces and eights

at the bottom of the deck
presage a hand on the back
of her husband. Finches whipping
past open windows dodge

hawks and shotguns thanks
to thousand-mile-per-hour
gusts reconstructing the city
securely inland. Not dead

in pus, off-white as lies,
her husband’s leukocytes
replenish his appendix,
pop a patellar tendon

together on the bone.
Tears satiate her thirst
for salt on lips, and wash
a pocketwatch whose dial

ignites a tiny human
who paces grounds that spread
the jaws that spew out gods—
Rube Goldberg built it best,

not first. The maker places
new digital displays,
watches them count the last
10 seconds to the blast.

To hear more from Steve, as well as from Dora Malech, please join us at Beaverdale Books on March 8th, 7pm, for our first reading of the season! As always, all events are FREE and open to the public!

YAPRS 2012 Spring Reading Schedule!

YAPRS March Reading: Dora Malech and Steven D Schroeder

Please join us at our first reading of 2012, featuring poets Dora Malech and Steven D Schroeder!

-Steven D. Schroeder is the author of Torched Verse Ends,(BlazeVOX Books, 2008). He graduated from Vanderbilt University. He currently edits the online journal Anti- and resides in St. Louis, Missouri.

-Dora Malech is the author of two books of poetry: Shore Ordered Ocean (Waywiser, 2010), and Say So (CSUPC, 2010). She earned her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 2005. She was last fall’s Poet-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College of California.

The readings are held at Beaverdale Books, 7pm, and as always, are free to the community! Please rsvp on our Facebook page, and invite your friends; we would love to have a full house for our first event of the season!

Greetings from Katie Stever - Intern at YAPRS

My name is Katie Stever. I am a first year student studying Secondary Education with English and ESL endorsements at Drake University. When I heard of the opportunity to become an intern for YAPRS, I jumped at the chance. Not only am I passionate about reading and hearing poetry, I am an active writer myself. I am very excited for this season of readings and events. I hope I can learn about the "behind the scenes" aspects of putting together such great events. I'm excited for what's to come and I hope you all are too!

Greeting from Sam

Hello everyone!
My name is Samuel James Harper Boyer (Sam for short), and I am one of the interns with YAPRS this semester. I am a senior writing major with an entrepreneurship minor from Chicago, Illinois. My favorite poet is Robert Frost, and I look forward to working with, and experiencing the poetry of, the great poets we will be hosting this spring.
I am starting a board game and tabletop role playing game company with two partners once I graduate, but I hope to continue writing and become published and successful in the craft. I enjoy reading, gaming, the martial arts, and learning to cook by trial-and-error. You can reach me at samuel.boyer1342@gmail.com.
Here's to a great semester for us all,

Sam

Greetings from Samantha Baker, intern of YAPRS

Hi all!

My name is Samantha Baker and I am an intern with YAPRS this semester along with Katie and Sam. I am currently a sophomore at Drake University double-majoring in Magazine Journalism and English. I greatly enjoy both my majors because I am able to really express my creative side. In my free time I enjoy reading, catching up on sleep, and hanging out with my friends. I'm an incredibly mellow and relaxed person on the outside, but on the inside I am burning with passion for my majors and work.

I am greatly looking forward to working as a member of the YAPRS team and learning about poetry, from the different types that exist to finding out more about the various poets we will be hosting. I am eager to not only expand my own knowledge of poetry but to inform all of you about it as well!