Poet Austen Rosenfeld maps emotional and psychological landscapes—moodscapes—when conjuring sense of place. This tricky cartography, dependent upon the ability to sense and express energies thrown by distinct locales, is especially successful in “Palm Reader”, a new poem that Austen read for HENRY in her Park Slope living room.
Though a New Yorker for many years, Austen was raised in Los Angeles. In “Palm Reader”, Austen represents her home city as a space removed from time and history, and transports the reader into an LA mindstate.
