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# Timothy Green

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://www.timothy-green.org/blog/)
- [The Giant Who Had No Heart  Inside His Body](https://www.timothy-green.org/the-giant-who-had-no-heart-inside-his-body/) - after Asbjørnsen and Moe didn’t know where to hide it. It was a big heart, after all, as huge as a Cadillac, as loud as a kick drum, and where do you hide such a thing? He tried the barn, wrapped in layers of aluminum foil and linen, hung on a hook from the highest
- [We Dug That Tunnel with Spoons ](https://www.timothy-green.org/we-dug-that-tunnel-with-spoons/) - after James Tate the size of shovels. They looked like silver oars in the lamplight, which made the dirt a chocolate ice cream. “This is so sweet,” you said behind me, pretending too. We rowed that way through the darkest soil, through the worms and the roots, the tiny gems in the jetsam. All night
- [After Hopper](https://www.timothy-green.org/after-hopper/) - Nighthawks, 1942 She says that everything is after Hopper. That posh hotel—you looked about to slap her, but never did. Sometimes she’d wait at night in her blue robe, face folded like the note you didn’t leave crumpled in a coat pocket. Sometimes she’d stand in broad daylight, naked before an open window, flesh so
- [Filling Up on Haibun](https://www.timothy-green.org/filling-up-on-haibun/) - This article first appeared in the Press-Enterprize, August 11, 2024 A few weeks ago, during the peak of a heat wave, I took the kids to the San Diego Zoo’s Safari Park. Despite the weather, we had a great time, and I decided to capture one of the moments in a haibun. The haibun form
- [The Real Magic of Poetry](https://www.timothy-green.org/the-real-magic-of-poetry/) - Originally published in the Press-Enterprise, July 2014 If you ask a roomful of poets what poetry actually is, you’ll hear a lot of grandiloquent hemming and hawing. Poets talk about poetry like the old parable of the blind men describing an elephant: “It’s long and slender like a snake!” “No, it’s thick and sturdy like
- [Poetry and the Subconscious](https://www.timothy-green.org/poetry-and-the-subconscious/) - RochesterInk Poetry Festival, October 2007 This talk might be subtitled, “Where Poetry Comes From,” because that’s what I’m most interested in. The best poems, the poems we want to reread and memorize and carry with us forever, are those that offer some kind of insight. They connect. They resonate. They touch on a deeper truth—a
- [What Passes for Optimism at MacArthur Park](https://www.timothy-green.org/what-passes-for-optimism-at-macarthur-park/) - Beside the concrete pond, small children fish for nothing. This is all it costs to wish: a yard of yarn, a crooked stick. They cast their paper cups as if they might outlast hunger, as if a minnow might appear from muck and shoes and empty cans of beer. We watch them scoop up all
- [Poem from Dark Matter](https://www.timothy-green.org/poem-from-dark-matter/) - First light through the limbs of the trees. And then the trees. Each morning the hum of traffic through the freeway wall. And then the traffic we’re bottled in. Each thing first betrayed by the shapes around it. As if shadows held all our weight. Like the empty space that props each fiery nest of
- [Poem from the Homeland](https://www.timothy-green.org/poem-from-the-homeland/) - Rose Bowl, 2006 As she trills the last note, there’s smoke. Each song now taken literally. When the fire- crackers burst, we leap to our relief. We clap, put our fingers in our teeth. Then the B-1 Lancer in the twilight. Drum-roll of the turbofans, their heat. —from American Fractal

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.timothy-green.org/)
- [About Timothy Green](https://www.timothy-green.org/about/) - Timothy Green is editor of Rattle magazine, host of the weekly Rattlecast, and co-host of The Poetry Space_. His radio programming regularly appears on KPFK-Los Angeles and his articles on poetry in the Press-Enterprise newspaper. Timothy was born in Western New York in 1980. A Rush Rhees and Take Five Scholar at the University of
- [Fungible Editions](https://www.timothy-green.org/fungible-editions/) - Fungible Editions is a small independent literary imprint from Katie Dozier and Timothy Green, publishing poetry, haibun, memoir in verse, and hybrid literary projects. Our books are available through Amazon and selected distribution channels. For interviews, review copies, excerpts, or event inquiries, contact Timothy Green or Timothy Green or Katie Dozier. Books from Fungible Editions
- [Books](https://www.timothy-green.org/books/) - Poems for Katie by Timothy Green Order from Amazon: Paperback | Hardcopy | eBook Order from Ingram: Paperback | Hardcopy In Poems for Katie, longtime Rattle editor Timothy Green gathers six years of poems written from weekly Rattlecast prompts as a gift for Katie—only to discover they had been telling a story he didn’t know he was living. Kept in
- [Manuscript Consultations](https://www.timothy-green.org/consultations/) - Tim is available for manuscript consultations on an extremely limited basis. He’ll use all of his 20+ years of editing experience to make the most out of your book, including line-editing, sequencing, titling, theme development, and a general analysis of strengths and weakness. Feedback includes both notes and a discussion over Zoom or the phone.
- [Contact](https://www.timothy-green.org/contact-2/)
- [Shop](https://www.timothy-green.org/shop/)
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## Categories

- [Essays](https://www.timothy-green.org/category/essays/)
- [Poems](https://www.timothy-green.org/category/poems/)

## Tags

- [American Fractal](https://www.timothy-green.org/tag/american-fractal/)
- [Haibun](https://www.timothy-green.org/tag/haibun/)
- [Haiku](https://www.timothy-green.org/tag/haiku/)
- [Poems for Katie](https://www.timothy-green.org/tag/poems-for-katie/)
- [Poetry](https://www.timothy-green.org/tag/poetry/)
- [love poems](https://www.timothy-green.org/tag/love-poems/)
- [loneliness](https://www.timothy-green.org/tag/loneliness/)