#thepoem

[stepfordwivespoems]

An open-mind

has no emotional

secretaries

—

Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 33

—

[fearisnear31]

day 23

society housewives suspicious of city call girls with silhouetted figures in a cottage on Fairview Lane

remix poem composed from words on pgs 34-35 Levin, Ira: The Stepford Wives (1972) edition published by Corsair, Constable & Robinson, Ltd, 2011 photograph credit: Vlad Gedroics

[thepoeming2024]

Day 6: An Accident

She opened up

an accident,

should have closed off

pulled two ways

cold and dark

Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. Perennial Publishers, 2002. Print. Text taken from page 103.

Original page:

[thepoeming-stepfordstanzas]

October 31: Intervention level

half moons have the worst publicity

it’s all or nothing with the sky

[This is a found poem made of words located on page 2 (title), page 43 (first line), and pages 8, 62, and 63 (second and third lines) in the source text.]

Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 31 2024.

[susanburch]

10/20/24

in her armpits a secret scream

A remixed poem from:

levin, ira. the stepford wives, William Morrow, 1972. P. 109, 113, 117.

[thestepfordpoet]

10.16

a poem, left a placemark first, a zig-zag, t h e n...

... i won't do it again

---

Found poem. Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. Harper Torch, 2004. pg. 96-116.

[confessions-of-a-stepford-poet]

Silk-soft / shirt / stained // channels changed

Found poem sourced from The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin arranged on The Wild Unknown Tarot

[afarewelltoarmsandpoems]

Farewell self-inflicted wounds

wounded fragments

wounded sleep

I, myself with open eyes

rising

a Strega in the Lord

—

Source text: Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell To Arms. New York: Scribner, 1929. Print. Pg 11.

[stepfordvibes]

Oct 30: She closed her eyes

*****

She closed her eyes and

She opened her eyes and

She squeezed herself out

of

the city

*****

Found poem by Sara Adams. Source material: Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. Random House, 1972. Page 127.

[thepoeming]

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[blood-sweat-pencraft]

I don't like

shopping at Christmas

3 strangers talking to me at the same time

crowds of people laughing and shouting

looking at people's quickly moving faces

smelling cigarette breath and aftershave

adverts shouting in my head to buy things

when people grab me like ready-made rubbish

a rushing river of people and only one way to go

I like a really cold winter night when all I could see was a star

Found poem source:

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Vintage Books, New York, 2003. pp: 8-10, 23, 32-39, 51, 82, 101-104, 145, 154, 178

[stepfordwivespoems]

The bullshit changed

into a house

on fire

—

Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 85

—

[fearisnear31]

day 12

a German Virgo

an American Taurus

Lobster Newburg and

a pitcher of Bloody Marys

Found poem” composed with words on pg 75-76Levin, Ira: The Stepford Wives (1972)

edition published by Corsair, Constable & Robinson, Ltd, 2011

photo credit: Daniel Norris

[thepoeming2024]

Day 1: The Poem Waits

a pen shifted impatiently

about to print potential farther-reaching thoughts

interested in Liberation for-both-sexes

Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. Perennial Publishers, 2002. Print. pg. 2.

Original page (forgot to take a pic before I started drawing it out):

[thepoeming-stepfordstanzas]

October 20: Trust was self-conscious

for j.g.

I was waiting for something and lost interest, pushed to fold

no longer sharpening the image of teeth to throat

trust was self-conscious as it fingertipped lightly at an empty chance

[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 48 and 49 (first stanza), pages 51, 53, and 54 (second stanza), and pages 13, 15, 31, 47, and 54 (third stanza) in the source text.]

Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 20 2024.

[susanburch]

10/7/24

January air I’m not sure I like you

A remixed poem from:

levin, ira. the stepford wives, William Morrow, 1972. P. 86, 24.