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Summer
2005
Krista Franklin
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VISUAL WORKS
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Krista Franklin is a poet,
visual artist and educator who hails from Dayton, OH, and
currently works and resides in Chicago, IL.
Her poems and visual art
have appeared in/on several literary journals and websites,
including Nexus Literary and Art Journal, milk, Warpland,
Obsidian III, nocturnes 2: (re)view of the literary arts,
milkmag.org , ambulant.org, and errataandcontradiction.org
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She has also been published
in the anthologies The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
and Bum Rush The Page: a Def Poetry Jam.
She is a Cave Canem fellow,
and was a featured poet in the 2000 New Voices New Worlds
Series in St. Louis, MO.
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| krista
franklin, chicago, poet, poetry, performance art, public schools,
teacher, visual artist, def poetry jam, |
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between
class
In
the hallways/ they mill about/ aimless/ without purpose/ hearts
full of hopes/ hands empty of books/ unprepared/
In class/ I ask: where is your pen/ pencil/ paper/ Nothing/
but rooms full of shrugs/ smirks/ their heads laid across their desks/
eyes closed like corpses on a coroner’s slab
What
am I supposed to do with this?
Teach/
Franklin/ Krista/Mental grave digger/ shoveling
state standards/ into closed minds/ Capture/her of compositions/
on webs of lines/ like dreamcatchers/ cracking open the phrases/
of their lives/ like skulls on concrete |
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