How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall

Aleksander Zywicki

on days I don’t hearfrom you I practicethat you’re dead& it goes just howI know it will all daylong         not a word& I tell myselfover & over likesomeone in hellit is because you’re deadyou’re dead I yellto myself you’re deadbecause I know ifI don’t start nowI’ll never be ready

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Aleksander Zywicki is the author of ZOUNDS! (selected by Kevin Prufer as the winner of the 2024 Barrow Street Book Prize). Aleks received an MFA from The New School and his work appears in: Plume, Gulf Coast, Laurel Review, Seneca Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Hunger Mountain, Bear Review, Shō Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He’s received a poetry fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing.

Seneca Review

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Geneva, New York

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Coeditors
David Weiss
Geoffrey Babbitt

Poetry Editor
Kathryn Cowles

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