Sherry Chandler

Inscape reading

Alternative title: Number 3 in a series of Sherry Chandler reading in front of colorful and distracting art works.

It was a beautiful evening, yesterday, for a drive to Morehead. We had time to take a brief walking tour of campus. They have done much to improve their facilities and upgrade the look of the place. Makes me even more regretful that Ernie Fletcher saw fit to cut the $30 million they were going to use to upgrade student housing. Having had a son who spent four years in one of their cell-like dorm-rooms and found it a depressing experience, I tend to think that money is desperately needed.

Inscape is a joint production of the MSU Departments of English, Foreign Languages & Philosophy and Art. It made its debut this year as an expanded perfect-bound annual. The issue runs to 75 pages of prose and poetry, with 16 b&w reproductions of art work. This is still primarily a student enterprise, but they are open to outside submissions.

I was pleasantly surprised to find my two poems beside three charming entries from former Kentucky Poet Laureate Joe Survant . a couple from Gary Walton, co-editor of the Journal of Kentucky Studies, and a selection from Matt Collinsworth, director of the Kentucky Folk Art Center.

The quality of the work is high. Here’s the winner of the student entries for poetry, Jeremy Thacker:

Dietician

She’s as thin as they come;
Head sold separately,
Abbie and Nathan, from Hurricane,
Bought her a small one and told her it was big.
Aphotic matter standardized in inseams
The belts her grandmother bought in corner shops after brunch
Lurched off her bantam wrists by Newton himself
She would think about vomiting the stars
Publishing it in First for Women.
I bet she would say Playboy
Then lay her head on her matchbox carpet
Scratch her thighs
And gaze at fat women on the beach.
Her alarm clock would call her bitch
She would vomit one more time.
Rinse and repeat.

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