Keith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is the author of Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2010) and the translator of The Fire’s Journey by the Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio (Tavern Books, Fall 2012).
Poetry
Summer 2013
Separate City: Prose Poems: Lives I’ll Never Live (for Minor White)
No one’s fooled today by the handsome young man who distracts the camera from the scenery. The moon over coastal hills excuses the pose, a sailor on leave, rough jaw, […]
Poetry
Summer 2013
Separate City: Prose Poems: Into the City
Off the train, up to Market, you discovered a separate city of quarter films and hustlers, of veterans who wore the clothes they were given, of mothers who awoke to […]
Poetry
Summer 2013
Separate City: Prose Poems: Explaining Wingrove
If I were gay, Wingrove said, I could get laid here so fast. We hadn’t seen each other since his brother died and were walking past the lavender flags. In […]
Poetry
Summer 2013
Separate City: Prose Poems: The End
When the next quake startles the cows, bringing down glass and sending up ashes, the superstitious will say we deserved it. Hidden rivers will burst toward the surface. Discos will […]
Poetry
Summer 2013
Separate City: Prose Poems: In Which White Horses Appear
Through the tunnel on the line that ends at the beach, that ends in fog, the car never empty, students and secretaries, an elderly Chinese woman hauling greens. No seat […]
Summer 2012
First in Vers Libre: Jules Laforgue’s Last Verses
In December 1908, while a student at Harvard, T.S. Eliot came across the poetry of Jules Laforgue in Arthur Symons’s critical introduction The Symbolist Movement in Literature.
Keith Ekiss
Keith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, and a recent graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He […]