form
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This poem, "form," was recorded in South Philly in the kitchen of my apartment where I've lived for the last 15 years. At the table where I'm sitting I've shared food and drinks with many friends over the years, and the poem comes from a desire to spend more time with them, constrained as we are through economic austerity and the insane expectations of capitalists. I used to write here at this table in the mornings, which I might start doing again.
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Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. He is the author of Wrong Heaven Again (forthcoming from Birds, LLC, 2024), General Motors (Split Lip Press, 2018), Valu-Plus (Furniture Press, 2014) and Old News (Furniture Press, 2011), as well as several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Prolit, Protean Magazine, Tripwire, Wax Nine Journal, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. Over the last two decades, Eckes has worked mostly as an adjunct professor and labor organizer in education. With Kim Gek Lin Short, he runs Radiator Press.