The second poem in a series dedicated to Maria Chekhov, sister of the famed writer and keeper of the archive.

It knows you could use a change of atmosphere.

"So you come, stinking to high heaven with all the foulness of your worn-out stories—je me souviens."

“Thank goodness history isn’t all goblets and tapestries.”

“The public air transmits / his days wirelessly / to my open window”

Canmore is carved out for war destroyers, celebrities and Cool Runnings in Stevie Howell's poem from Geist's latest issue.

This poem was first published in Geist 70 and now in the 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition.

First prize winner of the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

"Had hardwoods and crown moulding / I thought I could afford. I signed the lease, / sick of driving everything I owned"

Longlisted for the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

A word of advice from Julie Paul: "Make shit up."

Second prize winner of the 1st Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Theodor Adorno visits andrea bennett in the bathtub; bennett visits her nana in Sarasota.