Mark DeCarteret


ear bone (stereo)
for Mark Young


i.          
          
o to list          
what words          
still bear up          
under sound          

telling us all          
that must be          
written off          
in silence           


          ii.

          o to listen
          to the world
          age an eternity
          in a line or two

          letting us know
          now just how
          little there
          is to it




Mark DeCarteret & Wayne Atherton: Two collaborations

Mark DeCarteret was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He’s studied with Sam Cornish, Bill Knott, Tom Lux, Mekeel McBride, Charles Simic, and Franz Wright. He’s hosted and organized two reading series. Co-edited an anthology of NH poets. And was Poet Laureate of Portsmouth NH. Twice, a finalist for NH Poet Laureate. Prose poems from Mark DeCarteret’s manuscript The Year We Went Without have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Asheville Poetry Review, BlazeVOX (which recently published the first chapter of his novel Off Season), Gargoyle, Hole in the Head, Map Literary, On the Seawall, Plume, and Nixes Mate (which recently published his seventh book of poetry lesser case).

 
 

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