Caroline Beasley-Baker is a poet and visual artist. She lives in Fort Greene/Brooklyn, New York. Her books include ARIADNE/DARK DARK SHINE (Pelekinesis, 2018) and FOR LACK OF DIAMOND YEARS, was published in late 2013.
Poetry. The poems in ARIADNE/DARK DARK SHINE are, as the starting poem says, "a lost/found/&repeat narration. The arcing-thread—a-whip/lifeline/way/the-magical-gift-given/odd-bit—discovered in an old sewing basket. (Who sews nowadays?) No enchanted ...
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Poetry. FOR LACK OF DIAMOND YEARS is an idiosyncratic collection of short poems—most under 20 lines—that are a mixed set of free verse, unabashed counting forms like the Hay(na)ku and the Elfchen, and a very minimalist version of John Cage's mesosti...