Julianne Neely
certainty in self realization after
failing and I do not trust
this assembly what is quality
assembly relies upon a profitable
enterprise relies upon a striver upon
a portrait of novel and vast up
heavals world where to pour
historic concentrations of commerce
concentrations of themselves that they
believe advanced knowledge incorrect
knowledge not true knowledge and
they want to ignore skill immense
wealth the launching pad where
wealth approaching billions began
surplus supply chains intelligence
modification the professors the rush
of life many boasted enable one
another affair or travel fresh
departments tuning herding conditioning
indiscernible as they teach political
philosophy from western canon become
leaders of a force that data and
credentialism the overachiever and strength
of the American university they write
but they cannot write a poem hell
like I can write a poem
Julianne Neely earned her MFA degree from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship, the 2017 John Logan Poetry Prize, and a Schupes Fellowship for Poetry. She is currently a Poetics Ph.D candidate and an English Department Fellow at the University at Buffalo. Her writing has been published in Hyperallergic, VIDA, The Poetry Project, The Rumpus, The Iowa Review, and more.
