Teacher and Student

VacationHouse is returning to its Wednesday [7pm] schedule this week. We are featuring a rare treat this week--a student reading alongside her former teacher. I fully expect some version of the following exchange:
'The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the master.'
'Only a master of evil, Jess.'
'Your powers are weak, old man.'
'You can't win, Jess. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.'

ah, if only. Still, in spite of its non-violent nature, the reading should be full of sparks...

JESSICA FJELD was selected by Lyn Hejinian as the recipient of the
Poetry Society of America's New York Chapbook Fellowship in 2006. Her
poems are forthcoming in the next issue of the Backwards City Review,
and have previously appeared in the Columbia Review. Like 2.6 million
other people, she lives in Brooklyn.
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TIMOTHY DONNELLY is the author of Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit and Poetry Editor of Boston Review. He lives in Brooklyn.
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