They stride into our world, legs sheathed in Levis, baseball caps, shades of pastel, adorning heads. Their movement, unlike ours, effortless, we who stand on distended feet at day’s end, lowering congealed frames into plastic seats inside the bus that will haul us to obscure apartments, retreat from a […]
Steven Van Pelt
Steven Van Pelt began writing poetry as an early adolescent. After receiving a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Steven was accepted into the poetry division of the writing program at San Francisco State. Rather than attend, he moved to NYC, studying dance with Erick Hawkins and, then, for many years, at the Merce Cunningham Studio. Steven continued to write poetry, teaching in the NYC public school system for 20 years, specializing in literacy. Currently, Steven resides in Chicago, studying and 'playing' tai chi, reading and writing poetry.
Amherst, MA
Suspended in Amherst, once colonial, now suburban, English strains flowing through the typography of a purloined continent, homeland of displacement, I, confined, yet drifting on main street, aging face in a youthful band, pass a quarter to a placeless man, and so converse with Daniel, his buttoned jacket a probable hand-me-down, gaining leave […]