Feedback HarmoniesOn musician Arthur Russell
Eduardo C Corral: "Archival & elegiac & resonant"
Jimin Seo: "Erotic, sad, hopeful & unerringly true"2024
Reuben Gelley Newman
Reuben Gelley Newman (he/him) is the author of the chapbook Feedback Harmonies (7Kitchens). He coedits at Couplet Poetry and you can find his work in Ninth Letter, Salamander, Fairy Tale Review, Only Poems, mercury firs, Tyger Quarterly, & elsewhere.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
Chapbooks
Selected work (10 publications)
Frame Loop // Disintegration Loop[A Tape]
William Basinski cradling an old
cassette in his hands,
hearing the easy
melody
dis-
integrate over the course
of an hour...
3 poems of homophonic translationThe Wish
after Elizabeth Bishop
I sought an apprentice wish
and sailed whim—see! ride the throat
laugh votive lover kiss me // took
grasping adornment of his mouth.
Appended light.
Appended bright catch-all...
Cello SongI’m on a dwarf planet, in a hive of sound and gravity,
the lush architecture of a cello, strings rustling softly
against the stars, thick with sixteenth notes, sweet
honey of bees...
Three PoemsNo, I don’t want to come home
for dinner. No, I don’t want
to have sex tonight. No, I don’t
want to get a dog. Don’t
want to pick up the dog shit.
Don’t want to revise the poem,
or make the sonnet rhyme...