Magdalena Zurawski & Stacey Tran
Friday, October 23
IPRC 1001 SE Division
Portland, OR
7:00 PM
Magdalena Zurawski's poetry collection Companion Animal was published in 2015 by Litmus Press. Her novel, The Bruise (FC2 2008), won
both the Ronald Sukenick Prize for innovative fiction and the LAMBDA Award for
Lesbian Debut Fiction. Her online column on teaching aesthetics after Ferguson
can be viewed at Jacket2. Zurawski teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the
University of Georgia.
Stacey Tran is a curator of Pure Surface and an editor at
Poor Claudia. www.staceytran.com
[#Unoccupied]
After everyone stops
smoking the Ovid
it gets ugly to be alive.
The dead refuse us
and instead someone I know turns over
a police car and nothing
happens anymore not even
my face so empty and
too full of other people's
meanings.
I was bored and you
were bored, remember?
We dreamed of
leaving our heads
without a single
noun in them.
Magdalena Zurawski
UNTITLED ANIMAL #8
I'm in no danger
flowers resemble
years of wandering
aiming elsewhere
a puzzle of a map
try to help
scatter laughter
pick out paint
exaggerated care
a nest
an open wound
Stacey Tran
