Alejandro Juárez Crawford, from Volume 2:1

Alejandro Juárez Crawford has performed his serial poems at Galapagos Arts Space, the Blue Note, SOBs, and the Bowery Poetry Club, and has published them in Streetnotes and Stonefence. He regularly contributes opinion pieces for US News & World Report's Economic Intelligence blog, is a senior consultant with Acceleration Group, and teaches at both the New School, Baruch College of the City University of New York and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

In his own words, Crawford's serial poem "Leaning Music" is "a kind of 'poem of education,' if I may put it that way, education in those rhythms of existence that run counter to the dominant ones set by traffic lights and lunch breaks, conference calls and dinner dates."
  
                    Learn the song quickly
                      so it forms a million rhythms
                    that converge   and then depart,
                      but enter   the nature
                        of each other:
                      and because   they have created each other
                    do not fail
                        to reconvene.

                                       ...

                      Do you ever forget a night
                    walking through the belted constellations
                      of the supermarket aisle...


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 To read Crawford's extraordinary poem in its entirety, navigate through Synesthesia Literary Journal Volume 2:1!