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What Has a Secret Life

Glenn Ingersoll

found in the Berkeley Public Library online catalog

 

 

 

according to Brian Lynch: pets

according to David Grubin: the brain

according to Sylvia Tara: fat

according to Gina Prince-Bythewood: bees

according to Laurence Pringle: the red fox

according to Susan L. Prescott and Alan C. Logan: your microbiome

according to Mariano Sigman: the mind

according to Jack Viertel: the American musical

according to Anthony D. Fredericks: clams

according to James W. Pennebaker: pronouns

according to Erica McAlister: flies

according to Sue Monk Kidd: bees

according to Kira Vermond: money

according to Przemyslaw Wechterowicz: a tiger

according to Kenneth Libbrecht: a snowflake

according to Isabel Coixet: words

according to Kat Duff: sleep

according to Dawn Raffel: objects

according to Sarah K: a submissive

according to Roberto Poli: musical notation

according to Trevor Corson: lobsters

according to A. Peter Klimley: sharks

according to Steve Biddulph: men

according to Hannah Holmes: dust

according to Victoria Nelson: puppets

according to Carl Jones: the mother

according to Thomas Verny: the unborn child

according to Misty Evans: cranberry sauce

according to Alan D. Eames: beer

according to Kory Stamper: dictionaries

according to Eve Ensler: girls around the world

according to Richard Fortey: a natural history museum

according to Mandy Aftel: scent

according to Josie Iselin: seaweed

according to Keith Houston: punctuation, symbols, & other typographical marks

according to Clare Longrigg: women in the mob

according to Fiona Giles: breasts

according to Susan C. Law: the country house

according to Charles Fishman: water

Glenn Ingersoll works for the public library in Berkeley, California. Videos of his poetry reading & interview series Clearly Meant can be found on the Berkeley Public Library YouTube channel. Ingersoll's prose poem epic, Thousand, is available from bookshop.org and as an ebook from Smashwords. Autobiography of a Book is forthcoming in late 2023 from AC Books. His poem "Personal Testimony" was given a Special Mention in the 2022 Pushcart Prize anthology. He keeps two blogs, LoveSettlement and Dare I Read. Poems have recently appeared in Thieving Magpie, Furious Gazelle, and Trash Panda. http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com http://dareiread.blogspot.com

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