Mary Jo Bang
Mary Jo Bang is the author of seven collections of poems. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
September Is
By Mary Jo BangMary Jo Bang is the author of seven collections of poems. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
![Giorgio de Chirico, <em>L’énigme de l’heure </em>[The Enigma of the Hour], 1910/11. Oil on canvas. 21.7 × 28 inches. Private Collection. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome.](https://brooklynrail-web.imgix.net/article_image/image/18491/Bang-LARGE-web1.jpg?w=200&q=80&fit=max)
The Trip
By Mary Jo BangMary Jo Bang is the author of seven collections of poems. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
In Memory of My Feelings—Frank O’Hara
By Mary Jo BangShe could find reason anywhere if she looked for it. The clock told her to get up. She got up. She ate. The plot is the one thing we know, said Mandelstam.
Table Turning
By Mary Jo BangShe sat her purse down on the kidney-shaped coffee table, turned on the floor-lamp, and called the monkey over to have a chat. What had he done today? She wanted to know.
Cursive Landscape
By Mary Jo Bang>In the reverse psychology of earnestness, more suddenly meant less. Every tear was a crocodile hanging from the underlid. Every nose had its neat dot of moisture. And for wisdom, there was the Dali Lama.
