Alice Notley’s latest books are Songs and Stories of the Ghouls; Culture of One; and Reason and Other Women. She lives and writes in Paris.
Poetry
July/Aug 2018
Why Are You Writing These
to try to remember what you is that nothing much happens for 17 years it was rich living in isolation in a populous city remember when I hated my neighbor […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2018
The Fortune-Teller
in memoriam Joanne Kyger you have no body even when it hurts so much some matter has arranged to be you hasn’t it then you go to the fortune-teller I […]
Nature's (Human) Nature
May/June 2018
The Cure
You start and then you make rules for yourself grad- ually It is predicament same how to live but why Animal habitudes so complex or am I an un- inherited […]
Nature's (Human) Nature
May/June 2018
Polluted
it's so polluted so more and more polluted and hot Remember the year 2006 it was in the '70s at my birthday in November we saw a flock of parakeets […]
Poetry
Fall 2009
Attila the Gypsy Shakes Her Cup
Our connected wisdom, I was trying to hear, and speak, our collective knowledge. I am experiencing déjà vu Does it come in waves of thought or action? You are not […]
Poetry
Fall 2009
We Have to Know How to Make the New One
Perhaps we had no reason to leave the previous continent but we left we walked most of the way: it's what we do best; we also rowed where the ocean […]
Poetry
Fall 2009
To Frank
These are my wartime experiences, that no one has considered Occurring while one reads my poetry, as I am dead. The pacific war pacified no one, and that's not my […]
Poetry
Fall 2009
Hotel Truth Room
I am tough and sensible the older man said Let's look at the map again. I don't think we want it now—Look where it's taken us, Democrat or Republican. Jealousy […]
Poetry
Fall 2009
When You Arrived
The immigrants arrive, grave and with torches, a billion of us. In dreams you're compelled to be in the drama you're in. I was sleeping with him at his desk, […]
Fall 2009
When You Arrived
The immigrants arrive, grave and with torches, a billion of us. In dreams you’re compelled to be in the drama you’re in. I was sleeping with him at his desk, […]
Alice Notley
Evident Being: A Conversation with Alice Notley by KR poetry editor David Baker Transcript Alice Notley has been one of the most prolific and adventurous of American poets for the […]