{"id":1431,"date":"2020-08-14T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2020-09-07T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T14:03:32","slug":"poetry-by-julianne-neely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by Julianne Neely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"poemscroll\" style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">\n<h4>GEOGRAPHY<\/h4>\n<div style=\"width: 15%; float: left;\">w i n g<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\ns c a p e<br \/>\ns c a p e<br \/>\ns c a p e<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\ns p a n<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:red;\">s c a p e<\/span><br \/>\ns c a p e<br \/>\ns c a p e<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\ns p a n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 15%; float: left;\">\np o e m<br \/>\ns c a p e<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:red;\">w i n g<\/span><br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\np o e m<br \/>\ns c a p e<br \/>\np o e m<br \/>\np o e m<br \/>\np o e m<br \/>\ns p a n<br \/>\ns p a n<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\nw i n g<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 15%; float: left;\">\nw i n g<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\np o e m<br \/>\np o e m<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\np o e m<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:red;\">s p a n<\/span><br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\ns p a n<br \/>\np o e m<br \/>\ns p a n<br \/>\ns p a n<br \/>\nw i n g<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 15%; float: left;\">\ns c a p e<br \/>\np o e m<br \/>\ns c a p e<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\np o e m<br \/>\ns c a p e<br \/>\ns c a p e<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\nw i n g<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:red;\">p o e m<\/span><br \/>\ns p a n<br \/>\ns p a n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 39%; height: 390px; float: left;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>LISTEN<\/h4>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">listen : poets : do not say : listen :\nlist : en : a robbery : can you list :\nen to: a mother dead: in child birth :\nlisten : this is not cheeky : please\nactually listen : to a woman : dull :\nlisten : lady : it is not that impressive\nto write a poem : they say : listen :\nokay i am: listless : in tranquility :\njabbering on : attempting a break :\nclearly there is a break : in listening :\nto a forest that could never last : no\nnobody is listening : when a tree\nfalls i listen : but hear an earthly\nnothing : that starts and ends with\na listen : that makes you run to\nthe window : to stare in awe when\nyou hear the crash : listen : perennial\nmosses : listen : to what keeps you\nhonest : the tending of a garden :\nthe tender act : of listening : to\nthe person you love: i did not : listen\n: to the ramble of men : telling me\nto eat seeds : and grow something\nthat someone might : listen to : a\nchild : dead : yes : and in that lack :\nwoman : if only you could listen : in\nrhyme : syllable revolution : metered\nsign : well maybe : if everyone shut\nup : i could finally listen : to a song :\nto a sea : to the plastic entering my\nlungs : to the people not listening :\nto me: and if you are lucky nobody\nwill ever tell you : to listen : and you\nwill never say listen : softly or like\nsand : everyone lets out a final sigh :\nso listen : I am begging you to listen :\nwhen I say listen : please absolutely\ndo not listen to the poets\n\n\f\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>Julianne Neely received her MFA degree from the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship, the 2017 John Logan Poetry Prize, and a Schupes Fellowship for Poetry. She is currently a Poetics PhD candidate and an English Department Fellow at the University at Buffalo. Her writing has been published in <em>Hyperallergic, VIDA, The Rumpus, The Iowa Review<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEOGRAPHY | LISTEN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}