Ariel Yelen’s poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, Washington Square Review, and other journals. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University–Newark and serves as the associate editor for Futurepoem, where she also edits the blog future feed. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Poem Toward People
I’ve always been obsessed with people—
whether or not I know them. Obsessed
by our knowledge of each other, the quality
of connection, our friendship or non-friendship,
its relation to other connections. Obsessed
by the way a new connection can change pre-existing
ones, reorder them, renew...