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Anthony Madrid

Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2013, BODY, Fence, Lana Turner, LIT, and Poetry. His first book is called I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say.

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Arts in Society

Five Limericks

It’s been just over two years since Anthony Madrid published his celebrated debut collection I Am

Anthony Madrid, Mark Fletcher, Adam Fitzgerald

Forum Response

Irony and Sophistication

Irony is not on one end of a spectrum, with feelings at the other.

Anthony Madrid

Arts in Society

The Precision Chromatic Ray Race of People

WHO is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? Margaret’s mother

Anthony Madrid

Poetry
THE poems in that book suck bug nuts. I believe you know the drill. I must find the woman Cabrera, sleeves Cut...

Pretty Little Failboat

Anthony Madrid

Arts in Society

Milk the Dog and Walk the Cow

MILK the dog and walk the cow. I’ll bet you twenty-five cents. A courtly old demon, kind to

Anthony Madrid

Poetry
MILK the dog and walk the cow. I’ll bet you twenty-five cents. A courtly old demon, kind to all. Armadillo...

Milk the Dog and Walk the Cow

Anthony Madrid

Arts in Society

Pretty Little Failboat

THE poems in that book suck bug nuts. I believe you know the drill. I must find the woman

Anthony Madrid

Arts in Society

The Precision Chromatic Ray Race of People

WHO is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? Margaret’s mother was

Anthony Madrid

Poetry

CROWS, too, have a means of purring. Here is what they do.
They shuffle a deck of cards in their smoking...

Crows, Too, Have a Means of Purring

Anthony Madrid

Poetry

THEY have built a public fountain with the stones they threw at my father. I have tasted the water of that fountain...

They Have Built a Public Fountain

Anthony Madrid

       

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