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I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

Real Estate

Family Therapy

Heart Failure

Patty Melt

Sidewalk

Hearsay

Beet Soup

Piano Lesson

Mercy

Cover Story

Metonymy

Bed

Landmark

Yardstick

Several Tremendous

Cult Leader

Kitchen Window

Pornography

Stunt Man

The List

The Waves

The Subjunctive

Superposition

Mind Control

Orbit

Desk Clerk

Drug Plane

Spoon

Wheelchair

Doubt

Driveway

Heart Valve

Gun Case

Fear

Guesthouse

Heat Map

Pain Scale

Syllogism

Ventriloquist

Albondigas

Intercom

Hunger

Room Tone

White Noise

Time Travel

History

Dinosaur

Parataxis

Tablecloth

Redshift

The Horns

Word Problems

Marshmallow Cats

Cloud Factory

Photo Booth

Devonian Forest

Non-Diegetic Music

Inconvenience Store

Flevato

True Love

Horoscope

Field

Zeno

Fiction

Nonfiction

Poetry

Line

Sentence

Paragraph

Balcony

Velocity

Bird Trick

Volta

Strata

Fauna

Dawn

Mountain

WAR OF THE FOXES

I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

The Way the Light Reflects

Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors

Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede

Birds Hover the Trampled Field

Detail of the Hayfield

The Language of the Birds

Still Life with Skull and Bacon

Landscape with Several Small Fires

Detail of the Fire

War of the Foxes
Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light

Four Proofs

Ghost, Zero, Suitcase, and the Moon

Logic

Lovesong of the Square Root of Negative One

The Field of Rooms and Halls

The Mystery of the Pears

Dots Everywhere

The Museum

The Stag and the Quiver

Detail of the Woods

Landscape with Black Coats in Snow

Self-Portrait against Red Wallpaper

Glue

Turpentine

The Story of the Moon

The Worm King's Lullaby

The Painting That Includes All Painting




INTERVIEWS


The Common (April 2025)

BOMB (March 2024)

The Adroit Journal (October 2023) Commonplace Episode 52 (May 2018)

Green Linden Press (April 2015)

Poetry Foundation (April 2015)

The Awl (June 2015)

Tin House (December 2014)

Black Warrior Review (June 2014)  

BOMB (October 2011)

Gulf Coast (Winter/Spring 2006)



ESSAYS


Chrysanthemum

Ornithopter [1.1]*

Love From a Distance [1.2]*

Black Telephone [1.3]*

The Long and Short of It [2.1]*

With All My Road [2.2]*

Broken/Unbroken [3.1]*

Meet Me at the Page Where [3.2]*

When You're Not Breathing [4.1]*

The Definitive Version [5.1]*

*Spork Editor's Pages




BIO


Richard Siken is a poet and painter. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück, a Lambda Literary Award, a Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and I Do Know Some Things (forthcoming, Copper Canyon Press, 2025). Siken is a recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

CRUSH

I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

CRUSH

Scheherazade

Dirty Valentine

Little Beast

Seaside Improvisation

The Torn-Up Road

Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out

Visible World

Boot Theory

A Primer for the Small Weird Loves

Unfinished Duet

I Had a Dream About You

Straw House, Straw Dog

Saying Your Names

Planet of Love

Wishbone

Driving, Not Washing

Road Music

The Dislocated Room

You Are Jeff

Meanwhile

Snow and Dirty Rain


CRUSH


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CONTACT


Professional queries: 

richard.siken @ gmail.com 

All other queries, find him on X:

@richardsiken


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