Poet & Writer — New York City
Linda
Addison
Poetry and prose from the margins of the city.
Selected work
From the page
Poetry
Still Life with Subway
We carry our silences like stones in coat pockets, weighted, familiar, the city pressing in from all sides.
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On Staying
I have lived in this city long enough to know that leaving is a kind of myth. You don't leave New York. You just stop pretending you ever could.
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Inventory
One window. One fire escape. The neighbor's radio at midnight. A list of things I have not said growing longer by the season.
Read more"The city is a poem
no one finishes writing."
Live readings
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Reading & conversation
Group reading — Voices of the City
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Poetry in the Stacks series
About
The writer
Linda Addison is a poet and writer based in New York City. Her work explores the textures of urban life — the silences between strangers, the weight of ordinary moments, the way a city can hold you and break you at once. She has been published in literary journals across the country and reads regularly at venues throughout New York.
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