The Happy Fun of Love
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
$356 in my bank account, yo!
And my parents work for the government!
I’m living la vida frozen pierogi
at the intersection of un-hire-able-ness
and writer’s block!
Wanna come over?
This poem is supposed to be funny.
If you are not laughing,
I’ll list that as yet another failure.
CRISTIN O’KEEFE APTOWICZ is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Everything is Everything. She is also the the author of the nonfiction book, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, which Billy Collins wrote “leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature.” Most recently, Aptowicz was named the 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Writer-In-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania to work on a book about medical oddities. For more information, please visit her website at www.aptowicz.com.
:: ABOUT :: ISSUES :: SUBMISSIONS :: NEWS ::
| Ricky Garni :: | How to Write Letters About God, pt. 1 |
| Yoo Hoo! | |
| Larry O. Dean :: | The Sound Effects Bible |
| Nicelle Davis & Cheryl Gross :: |
The Post-Partum Sideshow—or—What Do I Know About Being A Freak? |
| Tammy Ho Lai-Ming :: |
You Don't Know Me |
| E.E. King :: | The Case of Dr. Dalton Plastic Surgeon |
| Dodie Bellamy :: | from “Cultured” |
| Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz :: |
List of Things You Have to Do |
| The Happy Fun of Love | |
| Stacey Wilson :: | Photographs of two found poems |
| Claudia Lamar :: | Ouija Board Transcripts |
| excerpts | |
| Claudia Lamar & Elizabeth Leavitt :: |
fortunes + dibuixos |
| Caitlin Roper :: | Ransom Note Poem #5 |
| Molly Gaudry :: | Die With Me When I Die |
| Travis Macdonald :: |
Chapter Four from “The Story” |
Homage to the Strange Spirits
| Clarice Lispector :: | from The Passion According to G.H. |