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Scattered Rhymes: Sampson Starkweather Part 1

by Ben Pease September 1, 2012 Scattered Rhymes

from KING OF THE FOREST from City of Moths My friend thinks that poetry has nothing to do with words. Poetry she says, is a mountain. An actual mountain. A thing that fools climb simply “because it’s there.” Poetry is there, but why do we constantly feel the need to prove it exists? To point [...]

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Poem of the Week: Bianca Stone

by Ben Pease July 27, 2012 Poems of the Week

The People of Distress Going through a box of old ephemerae I found a tiny notebook called The People of Distress. The day I found the notebook was the day I started reading up on the gnostic gospels late at night in Vermont, stoned, the laundry rinsed by the thunderstorm, its slow musk behind our [...]

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Poem of the Week: Margarita Delcheva

by Ben Pease July 20, 2012 Poems of the Week

It’s Fair Our life is boring. The fat caterpillar makes a ring on your walking stick. I want to be consumed by wind, the smell of oyster mushrooms and red horses. When folded, things become unrecognizable like hotdog paste. Thank god for the unresolved. The corner of your mouth a heron holding lavender in its [...]

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Poem of the Week: Bianca Stone

by Ben Pease July 13, 2012 The Other

from [Practicing Vigilance] I’m looting the altars of my former forgiveness like a cacophony of snow blowers I’m between making dinner plans and opening a can of sunshine onto the supernal room standing in a very quiet desert forcing the mean soliloquies out with their un-simulated volcanic ash hardening my exact replica. I used to [...]

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Poem of the Week: Sampson Starkweather

by Ben Pease July 6, 2012 Poems of the Week

Federal Bureau of Investigation you give great masthead take it from me I have a microphone where my soul is supposed to go if you put your ear up to it you can hear the future ten thousand girls going crazy at a chess match and we’re not coming out of this closet for any [...]

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Scattered Rhymes: Paige Taggart

by Ben Pease June 27, 2011 Recordings

from THE  NOTEBOOK

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Scattered Rhymes: Christie Ann Reynolds

by Ben Pease June 1, 2011 Poetry

REVENGE OF ALL THAT IS CAPABLE OF BEING REVENGED

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Poem of the Week: Bernadette Mayer

by Ben Pease May 26, 2011 Poems of the Week

After Catullus and Horace only the manners of centuries ago can teach me how to address you my lover as who you are O Sestius, how could you put up with my children thinking all the while you were bearing me as in your mirror it doesn’t matter anymore if spring wreaks its fiery or [...]

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Poem of the Week: Ben Estes, Ben Fama, Ben Kopel, Ben Mirov, Ben Winkler

by Ben Pease May 19, 2011 Poems of the Week

VII Beneath the black jungle palms, monkeys. They remind me of me, my tools, my cartoon heart that’s shaped like a heart. Other better animals are pronounced as being heavenly, in this native island tongue. I’m not true and I’m not free, I know I should go somewhere official, somewhere right, like make my way [...]

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Poem of the Week: Dawn Marie Knopf

by Ben Pease May 12, 2011 Poetry

Canoe How might we & the waters labor over now the new naming of the rapid by those who first travel that stretch of river named rightfully The Bronco after the tributary from the South & also after the way in which they advise it be treated as a Bronc be loose in the hips [...]

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Poem of the Week: Peter Shippy

by Ben Pease May 5, 2011 Poems of the Week

Extract from My Ragged Company, #19 I asked Alice to ask me to marry her. She asked if I wanted to lick the painting on the hotel wall. That’s a poster, I said. Just a paper Hopper: a sad woman in a red teddy sat on a hotel bed reading a yellow letter: He’s not [...]

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Scattered Rhymes: Ben Fama

by Ben Pease April 26, 2011 Recordings

Reach into the cloud
architecture, almost to the stars.
I lived where they are made
growing up as a kid.
I just wonder what people
are thinking sometimes,
or what happens to ideas
too un evil to endure.
Out there near the edge
the ferocactus has begun to bloom.
I heard once some skaters
were murdered there.
Today I would only
take advice from an angel.
She says soon you will grow
into a beautiful girl.
Soon you will become a planet,
moons and everything.
Sometimes I feel so happy
I forget I’m going to die,
then I go to the desert
with just my sticks
and wait for the shaman.
He always comes.
And raises a temple up
from the dirt, to give to my life
a gleam of delirium, that I may
accept the final results with grace.

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Scattered Rhymes: Brandon Kreitler

by Ben Pease March 16, 2011 Recordings

Cardinality 1. The shotgun shines ___radiant history across the mantle. 2. The wind rips through a rolodex of the names of the dead. ___It could be a litany, almost ______like the registers of Audubon societies ___and the Who’s Who of West Virginia 1974 ______begging for a trumpet in morning, a waltz and then a nap [...]

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Scattered Rhymes: Ken Chen

by Ben Pease March 5, 2011 Recordings

some of Ken Chen’s poems and find links to items mentioned in the podcast.

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Scattered Rhymes: Colin Cheney

by Ben Pease February 26, 2011 Recordings

some of the poems Colin reads in the podcast and find links to items discussed during the interview.

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Scattered Rhymes: Solmaz Sharif

by Ben Pease February 19, 2011 Recordings

the poems Solmaz Sharif reads in the interview and find links to some items discussed during the interview.

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