Barbara Novack – String Poet

SUSHI TEXT

(After “Volumes,” art by Jacqueline Lee)

Books rolled and bound
in iron
green hinged metal holding
fibrous tan-green-red,
a strange sushi
of text
and context:
manacled words
communicate the withheld;
in the unsaid
all is said.

Barbara Novack, Writer-in-Residence at Molloy College, is also a member of their English Department. She founded and hosts Poetry Events and Author Afternoons, two reading series at Molloy College that bring contemporary poets and writers to a wider audience, and she presents programs and conducts workshops on poetry, fiction, and memoir in the New York metropolitan area. An award-winning writer, she is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers and in Who’s Who and Who’s Who of American Women.