Shame / Shame - Becker, Devin

Devin Becker: Devin Becker grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and holds degrees from Williams College, the University of California, Irvine, and Indiana University. His poetry and research articles have been published in American Archivist, Cutbank, Faultline, Microform and Digitization Review, Midwestern Gothic, The Pinch, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Moscow, Idaho, where he works as the digital initiatives librarian at the University of Idaho Library.

David St. John: Over the course of his career, David St. John has been honored with many of the most significant awards for poets, including fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, The Rome Fellowship, an Award in Literature from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the O. B. Hardison Prize (a career award for teaching and poetic achievement) from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the George Drury Smith Lifetime Achievement Award, and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His work has been published in countless literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper’s, Antaeus, and The New Republic, and has been widely anthologized. David St. John is the author of ten collections of poetry, as well as a volume of essays, interviews and reviews, and is co-editor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of the New Poem. He currently teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents:

Western 2

Smoothie Joint 3

Tennis Courts 4

Tobacco Outlet 5

Backyard 6

Restaurant 7

Kitchen 8

Data 9

Auditorium 10

Breakfast Bar 11

Business School 12

Living Room 13

New Year's Eve Day 14

Corner Club 15

Butte 16

Sangria 17

Atlantic City 18

The Internet 19

Apartment 20

Conference 21

Indianapolis 22

Kristin 23

Wedding 24

Nook 26

Plot 27

Water Fountain 28

Parking Lot 30

Window 31

Northern Hemisphere 33

What Leave I Offer 34

Sad, Outside, Winter 35

Did We Learn Anxiety from Each Other? 37

Sleeping Next to a Lion 38

The New Poetry 39

Cosmology 40

Episode 1 - Pilot 43

Shower 44

Honeymoon 45

Mirror-Stage 46

The Church Floor 47

Data (II) 48

Self-Portrait 49

Least 50

His Boats 51

Back from the Dead Awhile 52

Ex Nihilo 53