Author: Elizabeth Cusack, Poet
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The Poetry of Elizabeth Cusack Showcase (November 2023)
Sick of Love (for Bob Dylan) You can’t say anything anymore In the old days, we shot anyone Who got too close, like Jesse James But you imposed your … The Poetry of Elizabeth Cusack Showcase (November 2023)
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Bare Bones Writing #3: Stephen Mead
Trigger warnings: Suicide and Ideation, Sylvia Plath, Trauma/Survival from, and in the poem “I GOT”, taking on the voice of a character whose speech … Bare Bones Writing #3: Stephen Mead
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Subsidize This!
Amazing It is amazing how Egalitarian things can be When you stop voting for idiots, Provide for people’s basic needs, Education, food, clothing and housing; You won’t be subsidising “He whose name cannot be spoken’s housing, or anything else of his, or else He will come and take away your family’s.” ~ Elizabeth Cusack, 29…
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Recent poem of mine from June 2025
Published today at Fevers of the Mind. Many thanks to editor David! https://feversofthemind.com/category/elizabeth-cusack/ And I will drown forever where so many have gone— Jeff Buckley Never Knew Why She told him on the telephonegoodbye, she would be walking outwith her main man, and he never knew whyher gowns were found wrapped therelike dressings of morphine…
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Critheis
Three times, like as shadow or a dream, she slipped through my hands— Homer Critheis Even as children we remained alone, And as we grew old, in our loneliness We longed for when we would meet; Though broken we would respond. What is left is gone, like our memories. ~ Elizabeth Cusack, 17 August, 2025
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A poem of mine “Salton Sea” first posted @StarbeckOrion
Salton Sea This is where I live sort of seen from outer space I’m on the border with Mexico That’s the diagonal line, lower left What would cause someone like me to live here? Good question— How far away could I get from everything? Nothing but deep blue sky piercing through like jets crossing the…
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Press Release for my 2024 book, Lovers Leap
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** EDITORS: For review copies or interview requests, contact: Marketing Services Tel: 1-812-359-6031; 844-714-8691 Fax: 812-355-4079 Email: MarketingServices(at)xlibris(dot)com (When requesting a review copy, please provide a street address.) Author Elizabeth Cusack reimagines the life of Sappho in new poetic autobiography, ‘Lovers Leap’ A modern poetic voice breathes fresh life into ancient legend, revealing Sappho’s passions, heartbreaks and…
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Elizabeth Cusack – Fevers of the Mind
IPosts about Elizabeth Cusack written by davidlonan1 — Read on feversofthemind.com/category/elizabeth-cusack/
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Blowing Up the Avenue
A few of my poems are published at Starbeck Orion https://open.substack.com/pub/the880/p/welcome-to-the-starbeck-orion-summer-693?r=2v8vcr&utm_medium=ios
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Notes From the Road at Fevers of the Mind Poetry, Art and Music.
A poem of mine was published in Fevers of the Mind “Barebones Writing”. It was certainly bare bones. I was having a very chaotic summer on and off the road and was able to cobble together some lines expressing my state of confusion. Thank you editors at Fevers of the Mind for their kindness and…
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Syd Barrett and Terrapin
Poetry on the Rocks for Lonely Hearts 