Ian Ganassi

Ian Ganassi’s poetry, prose and translations have appeared in more than 100 literary magazines, including New American Writing, The Yale Review, and New England Review. Recent news includes poems in First Literary Review-East, Otoliths, and forthcoming in Amp, Poetry Pacific and Bending Genres.  His poetry collection Mean Numbers was published in 2016. His new collection, True for the Moment is due out in the fall of 2019 from MadHat Press. Selections from an ongoing collaboration with a painter can be found at www.thecorpses.com.

Mandatory Compulsion

If only one could play them without the “tits and feathers.”
​A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

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Three Permission Slips, July 2018

He couldn’t say that he
Couldn’t say that he couldn’t
Wish for a kinder father.
What could he say, faced
With those sorts of choices?

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from "The Corpses"

All That RotBoardwalk

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Three Permission Slips

Helen of Troy will die,
But Helen of Colorado never.
Counter clerks and soda jerks
Populated the old days. Remember
Woolworth’s? I do, but barely.

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