Amy Newlove Schroeder's first book, The Sleep Hotel, received the Field Prize and was published by Oberlin in 2010. Her poems and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, and Pleiades. She currently lives and teaches in Los Angeles.
I Abandon Poetry Altogether
At the party the body of the young man makes me look I look The lean uninflected flesh of the belly This casual skin Men looked Now I look The boy dives in the water, then otters back, smiling at me He doesn’t know that bodies can empty like jars He doesn’t...
