In September 2010, I began photographing poems as they appear in books. My thanks to the poets and publishers who produced these subjects.Tumblr (3.0; @jenbenka)http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f005d150722055556e4326c458f8c410/tumblr_mjwoyvbWFz1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Lorine Niedecker on the simple.</strong></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/45750054431http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/45750054431Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:52:07 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4d61a3ce3db02f0d33d69b2b7549daa3/tumblr_mjlk3hvZhq1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Surveillance with Kaia Sand</strong></p> <p><em>From “Remember to Wave” published by TinFish</em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/45262111509http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/45262111509Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:33:17 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/832103d756ab1532d1777638c7bd7268/tumblr_mi3xlk5ch81rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><em>perhaps there is only gray. Or this by Susana Gardner.</em></strong></p> <p><strong>From Herso published by Black Radish Books, 2011</strong></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/42920492106http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/42920492106Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:34:32 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/132eba0acecec8d4c13cb6b39c59ec3b/tumblr_mhhqg2dGoo1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>even here they ring, and sting, and sing. or this by wislawa szymborska</strong></p> <p><strong><br/></strong><em>from “View with a Grain of Sand,” published by Harcourt Brace.</em><strong> <br/></strong></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/41941490739http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/41941490739Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:52:50 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8a16c3b391c950be30686090fc98a72f/tumblr_mhdzieFL141rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>the women stay. or this from monique wittig’s “les guerilleres”</strong></p> <p><em>published by the university of illinois press, 2007<strong><br/></strong></em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/41779672549http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/41779672549Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:18:14 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c5300065135e1bb05e32fcd9362633b0/tumblr_mhaw2f8UrW1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>puppy love. or this by Wislawa Szymborska.</strong> </p> <p><em>Published in “View with a Grain of Sand” Harcourt Brace, 1993</em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/41633566490http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/41633566490Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:11:03 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/63069fc04e20a9b776c338e5d28ef5a0/tumblr_mh6kfgDrRz1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>“you can be tested or you can be savage.” Lee Upton on our options<br/></strong></p> <p><em>from “Approximate Darling” published by the University of Georgia Press (1996)</em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/41434653566http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/41434653566Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:09:00 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2800fff50e0a7d698f56aba0817a2e09/tumblr_mfwjosChqo1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><span class="userContent">Wishes from Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”… for 2013 or 2,013,000. (With backdrop by Michael Bonfiglio) </span></strong></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/39309075314http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/39309075314Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:43:38 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/893f1fbc58b1274c3ab5c1ac85550ffa/tumblr_mev8ma2Ttw1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>A “enueg,” is a list of vexing things. In this case, the beginning of Beckett’s</strong></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/37709291788http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/37709291788Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:13:22 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_melzoflpIB1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>bits of birch. or this by Erin Moure.</strong></p> <p><strong><br/></strong><em>from “Little Theatres” published by Anansi Press</em><strong><br/></strong></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/37328318040http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/37328318040Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:21:00 -0800poetrybirch trees<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_megffn2c2P1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>upon closer examination. or this, by Yedda Morrison </strong></p> <p><em>from “Darkness” published by Make Now books</em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/37108085940http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/37108085940Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:16:35 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdsdpcez4Q1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>city seen from two sides. or this by eavan boland</strong></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/36134782744http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/36134782744Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:36:47 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md0lq4xKV61rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>In the voting booth I am definitely a woman. But in the end? or this by eavan boland.</strong></p> <p><em>from “In a Time of Violence,” published by Carcanet</em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/35052933845http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/35052933845Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:37:15 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mci11m9J3a1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><span class="userContent">the poem as a block in a “city of a book.” or this by Anna Moschovakis</span></strong></p> <p><em><span class="userContent">from “I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone,” published by Turtle Point Press</span><strong><span class="userContent"><br/></span></strong></em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/34355749328http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/34355749328Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:53:44 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcebi39c0T1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><span class="userContent">a poet’s grocery list. or this by Ichiro Ando (1930-1973)</span></strong></p> <p><em><span class="userContent">from the 1962 “Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry,” published in Tokyo by Kenkyusha Ltd.</span></em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/34226279987http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/34226279987Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:49:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbxnwkBEaN1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>responding to the shuttered heart. or this by Pablo Neruda.</strong></p> <p><em>from “The Essential Neruda, Selected Poems,” published by City Lights</em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/33636037521http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/33636037521Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:57:55 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbq6y5GGyo1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>training with Mel Nichols</strong></p> <p><em>from “Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon,” published by Edge Books</em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/33358731303http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/33358731303Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:08:28 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbmiiciGIW1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>on the Highline with Harryette Mullen</strong></p> <p><em>from “S*PeRM**K*T,” published by Singing Horse Press</em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/33226408149http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/33226408149Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:27:47 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbkw55BwQA1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>our country ‘tis of this by the late Paula Gunn Allen</strong></p> <p><em>published in “America the Beautiful” published by West End Press</em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/33159580131http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/33159580131Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:27:04 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbf4seHxmo1rqyozfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>direction revealed. or this by Jean Valentine</strong></p> <p><em>published in “Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003” by Wesleyan</em></p>http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/32933442027http://jenbenka.tumblr.com/post/32933442027Fri, 05 Oct 2012 04:48:14 -0700