by Annaliese | Nov 21, 2021 | Poetry
His heart punched me. Now, not just the random heart strokes that everyone else is talking about or was talking about yesterday but the infinitesimal strokes that are what I most held onto after his last breath. I cannot begin to tell you the last breath—deep gutted...
by Annaliese | Nov 20, 2021 | Poetry, Uncategorized
— after Giant by Mark Bradford 2007 (torn pasted papers) @Museum of Modern Art Do not be misled by tiny broken bones that lookincapable of holding a teacupfrom your mother’s old set ofchina or a matchstick,the pretense of privacy,luminarias, buckets of...
by Annaliese | Nov 12, 2021 | PRESENCE: Designs for Living, Writing Blog
Annaliese Jakimides, Through This Thistle of Virus, mixed media on board, published in Maintenant 15: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art I’m reading Tuesday, 11/16, at 7 p.m. ET with 16 other writers and artists published in Maintenant 15: A Journal of...
by Annaliese | Nov 11, 2021 | Essays, Essays
THANKSGIVING NIRVANA? START WITH IRONED LINEN, ADD CREAMED ONIONS, BEETHOVEN, AND A FEW STRONG OPINIONS—AND DON’T FORSAKE THE PEAS. BY ANNALIESE JAKIMIDES No matter what anybody says, there is a “right” way to do Thanksgiving—and, of course, it’s my way. Actually,...
by Annaliese | Oct 18, 2021 | PRESENCE: Designs for Living, Writing Blog
photo by Leslie Bowman In 2008, in the summer before Barack Obama was elected president, I went out to Vinalhaven with my friend the photographer Leslie Bowman to interview artist Robert Indiana, who turned 80 in ’08—”a good omen for a man who changed the...
