guarding / life
Three poems by Arden Levine reimagines and transforms text from the New York City Parks Department's most recent Official Lifeguard Recruitment Brochure. Design by Rico Frederick.
Objects
Fresh Legs, Mermaid Hand, Lipstick-Colored Cross
About the Artist
Arden Levine’s poems have most recently appeared in Harvard Review, Indiana Review, The Offing, No Dear, and The Lifted Brow (Australia). Arden is a DC-born New Yorker and a member of the Beloit Poetry Journal board, and her daily work focuses on developing, preserving, and advocating for affordable urban housing and neighborhoods. She knows where to find all the best beach glass on the Eastern seaboard, but she isn’t telling.
Rico Frederick is a graphic designer and the author of the book Broken Calypsonian. He holds an MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute, is a Fulbright Semi-Finalist, Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, and Cave Canem Fellow. Rico is a Trinidadian transplant who lives in New York. Web: ricofdk.com