Joshua Corey

Joshua Corey is the author of thee books of poetry: Severance Songs, Fourier Series, and Selah. He lives in Evanston, Illinois, teaches English at Lake Forest College, and is currently at work on his own poet’s novel.

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Jacket2 welcomes unsolicited queries during the month of January 2019. We are especially (though not exclusively) interested in queries of the following kinds:

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Sherry Bernstein: Funeral Program

Charles Bernstein

Riverside Memorial Chapel, New York, 11am, Nov. 2, 2018
Charles Bernstein, officiating

Sherry Bernstein (Feb. 2, 1921–Oct. 27, 2017): obituary (Jacket2, October 28, 2018)

No, MY Ariel

An engagement with Sina Queyras's 'My Ariel'

Margaret Christakos

In the first poem of Sina Queyras’s poetry collection My Ariel, an I-speaker testifies that “A love procedure set me going like a big fat lie.” This line directly overwrites one of Plath’s most famous lines — “Love set you going like a fat gold watch” — often quoted to portray Sylvia’s personal experience of new motherhood on the occasion of her daughter Frieda’s birth.

February 5 [2018]

January 16, 2019