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Please click below to listen: hustle+blow_mp3 STATEMENT Poet Brett Evans lives in the Bayou St. John neighborhood of New Orleans. This bayou, which runs into the middle of the city, is home to nutrias, pelicans, and flying fish, and was a Native American trail and portage. New Orleans is made of water. Its streets are boat decks that dry and we walk them until we get rained on with more water and mimosa blossoms. The theme of the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans was water as the source of all life. Huh. Poetry at times like this seems to be a paper bullet flying at a toxic giant — but we simply must. We must for the reasons we know: awareness, catharsis. And then we load the tool basket and head down to the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program and pitch in some more with our hands. (Poets for Living Waters, June 28, 2010)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brett Evans is the author of Slosh Models (Factory School, 2009). and Ready-to-Eat Individual [with Frank Sherlock] (2006, Lavender Ink Press) and After School Session with Brett Evans (Buck Downs Books/subpress, 2001). He is a founding byron cottee member of the carnival microkrewe ‘tit-Rex and a member of the band Skin Verb.
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FEATURED POEMS FLY OVER WATER, CRUMBS IN A CUP by Terri Witek EXCERPT from MANATEE/HUMANITY byron cottee by Anne Waldman TWO POEMS by Jonathan Skinner TWO POEMS by Sarah Browning THREE POEMS by Janet Holmes AUTUMN BEACH by Scott Sweeney TWO POEMS by and INTERVIEW with Michael Rothenberg THREE POEMS by Sandra Simonds HEAVEN AS NOTHING BUT THE DISTANCE by JOSHUA ROBBINS A QUAHOG FOR WALT by ROGER FANNING CHANNEL by Katherine Factor UPON OUR DYING DAYS WE DID SUCH by Steven Karl TWO POEMS by Michael Schiavo THE EGGS OF HOA HAKANANAI’A by SJ Fowler BLUE by Laura Quigley Veiled Spill #1 by Jan Clausen FOUR POEMS by Julia Johnson GUMBO by George Comeaux TWO POEMS by Julia Bloch The Ninth Star by Mai a  byron cottee Lullaby by Dana Teen Lomax TWO POEMS by January G. O’Neil Two Tarballs by Frank Izaguirre CALL IT ACCIDENT by Monique Wentzel A BLESSING FOR THE WATER by Judith Roche MAY 21 by Chella Courington SCIENCE FICTION by Ariana Reines THE EARTH IS BLEEDING: POETRY ACTION & FILM by Ghen Dennis FLARE by Chelsea Lemon Fetzer TWO POEMS BY DIANE ELAYNE DEES THE DAY WE ADDED ECOCIDE TO OUR VOCABULARY by Andrew Rihn WHAT FAR AWAY MEANS by Rachel Mennies TWO POEMS by Alexander Roussel DAUGHTERS byron cottee OF THE DELUGE by Nijla Baseema Mu min TWO POEMS by Rebekah Bergman THE VIEW FROM CEDAR KEY by Lola Haskins BLUE by Laura Hinton–in memoriam (Paul Daniel Lyon aka Vickers B. Gringo, 1978-2010) WE DREAMT OF A CITY OF MIRRORS by Amy Schrader PLUMES FROM YOUR BED by Laura Fenwick FIREWATER by Allen Hines THREE POEMS by Andree Cosby byron cottee POEM by D. Ellis Phelps INCANTATION FOR OUR MOTHER by Barbara Barnard TWO POEMS by Andy Young THREE POEMS by Stacy Kidd BIG BLANK PAGE FOR MARINE LIFE by Qiana Towns EVERYBODY COOL IT by Jason Morris THREE POEMS by Geoff Munsterman THREE POEMS by Penny Harter THE RIVER, ONCE by Marc Vincenz RECENTLY READ EXCERPT FROM THE BOTTOM by Betsy Andrews LICKETY-SPLIT by Anne Higgins THREE POEMS by Philip Metres WHO HAS NO LAND HAS NO SEA by Fady Joudah THREE POEMS by Barbara Henning TO THE MOTHER OF WATERS, TO WHOM WE NO LONGER PRAY by Margot F. Boyer LOUISIANA SWAMP POEM by Sheryl St. Germain TWO POEMS by Alicia Ostriker EXCERPT from MANATEE/HUMANITY by Anne Waldman BLUE by Laura Hinton--in memoriam (Paul Daniel Lyon aka Vickers B. Gringo, 1978-2010) FEATURED POEMS by MONTH June 2013 April 2011 February 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010
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