As you know, we've started a weekly poetry feature here on Slog. Last week's poet was Nico Vassilakis. For this week's poet, Nico has chosen Crystal Curry.

His reasons for choosing Curry are as follows:

when a behoover steps up to the dais there are dense shifts. and there are sinister schemas that curtail. the cocktail of dactylic tetrameter up on its upper bleacher. a distinct twang assault. humming her logic, her taunt of - poetry should do nothing. this is crystal curry, a found appetizer, drifting through sheets of emulsified paper.

seattle poetry would do well to deny its unauthentic past and create a new vocabulary of itself.

bring it on, bring it here. i double dare you.

And she has. Curry's most recent book is titled Logotherapy Pant, and you can read more about it here. She also has poems here, here, and 5 more here. She's a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

Here is Crystal Curry's poem:

Many thanks to (the delightfully named) Crystal Curry. Tune in next Friday at noon to see who she has chosen to be the next link in the Seattle Poetry Chain.