Vicki Sher, Untitled, 2019. Oil pastel and pencil on drafting film, 25 × 21 in, 63.5 × 53.3 cm. Courtesy of the artist and frosch&portmann.

Vicki Sher, Untitled, 2019. Oil pastel and pencil on drafting film, 25 × 21 in, 63.5 × 53.3 cm. Courtesy of the artist and frosch&portmann.

 

PBS

by Callie Garnett

 

If we accept the premise that commercials are effective teachers it is important to be aware of their characteristics.
–Joan Ganz Cooney, “The Potential Uses of Television in Pre-School Education”

 
 

There she goes again
In her athletic shoes & visor
Up the hill backwards

Every day she goes
Every sunny day
Up the hill backwards

Sometimes I worry it will stunt
The child
(Not a research-based concern
Just a feeling)

Published May 3rd, 2020

Callie Garnett is the author of the chapbooks Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (Ugly Duckling Presse), and On Knowingness (The Song Cave). Her poems have appeared in jubilat, the PEN Poetry Series, The Recluse, No Tokens, and elsewhere. She works as an Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing and lives in Brooklyn.

Born in Washington D.C., Vicki Sher received a BFA from Cornell University, an MFA from the University of Iowa, and is now based in Brooklyn. The recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellows Award and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Fellowship, Sher’s work has been shown widely across America for almost thirty years.