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Scattered Rhymes: Deborah Landau

by Ben Pease February 12, 2011 Recordings

some of Deborah’s poems here and find links to some of the things Ben and Deborah talk about in the interview.

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Scattered Rhymes: Ben Mirov

by Ben Pease February 5, 2011 Recordings

to see some of the poems Ben Mirov reads and find some other links to items from the interview. Ben Mirov, Part 1 Ben Mirov, Part 2

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Scattered Rhymes: Morgan Parker

by Ben Pease January 29, 2011 Recordings

Anthropology, publishing houses in elementary school, estrangement, ants conferencing over Frank Zappa. Morgan Parker describes herself as equipped with the eyes of a surrealist, ears of an ethnographer, tongue of a cynical comedian, and heart of a brooding sixteen-year old. _ _ _ Morgan Parker, Part 1 Morgan Parker, Part 2

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Scattered Rhymes: Sarah Schweig

by Ben Pease January 22, 2011 Recordings

Sarah Schweig, neighbor to airfields, estrangement, mythology, imagination, opens up about how she came to be a poet of departures. Pardon my inability to pronounce Catullus. Sarah Schweig, Part 1 Sarah Schweig, Part 2

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Scattered Rhymes: Josh Bettinger

by Ben Pease January 15, 2011 Recordings

He’s just a west-coast boy, living in New York City, he took the express train to where good poems reside. I must be tired or going insane, but Josh Bettinger is without a doubt on his game in these five poems—five because he claimed they were all shorties, but it’s not long into the interview [...]

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Scattered Rhymes: Dawn Marie Knopf

by Ben Pease January 8, 2011 Recordings

Of course, the first guest on the show to grow up in one of the largest wilderness preserves in the United States, Yosemite National Park, provides me with a photo of herself taken indoors. Dawn Marie Knopf’s poetry feeds off a particularly American mythos: old wives’ tales, Farmer’s Almanacs, the revered stories of American pop [...]

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Scattered Rhymes: Evan Hansen

by Ben Pease December 24, 2010 Scattered Rhymes

I’ve never seen Evan Hansen wear a cowboy hat, but his pensive look in this picture displays the same concern he shows in his poetry for people and the tremendous, unspeakable burdens they carry on a daily basis. While the characters in these poems at times find solace, it is by no means permanent, and [...]

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Scattered Rhymes is Coming! Josh Bell

by Ben Pease December 11, 2010 Scattered Rhymes

The Scattered Rhymes podcast was making itself a home at THEthe. In anticipation of the coming podcast, we are reposting the old episodes from the . Today we’re reposting . Part 1 Part 2

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Solmaz Sharif

by Ben Pease June 3, 2010 Interview

THEATER I dropped down against the mosque wall curled my shoulders in let my feet fall apart tilting toward the rubble-dusted floor tried to still my lashes as rifles came clanging in their muzzles smelling out scent heated off a pulse I was playing dead between the dead a beast caught sight of my breath [...]

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Deborah Landau

by Ben Pease April 19, 2010 Interview

from Welcome to the Future

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Frank O’Hara’s “To The Poem”

by Ben Pease March 23, 2010 Poetry Comics



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Three Poems and an Interview with Ben Mirov

by Ben Pease March 15, 2010 Interview

Posted in tandem with www.scatteredrhymes.com Part 1 [audio:http://www.scatteredrhymes.com/poets/ben%20mirov%201.mp3|bgcolor=0x000000] Part 2 [audio:http://www.scatteredrhymes.com/poets/ben%20mirov%202.mp3|bgcolor=0x000000] Monkey Heart Pick it up. Consider it a machine. Put it down. Remember you need it. Go back to where you left it. Airport terminal, donut shop seventh grade. Are you scared? It’s ok. So am I. Take a wet rag. Put it on [...]

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He clasped the branches as if they were parts of human arms

by Ben Pease March 1, 2010 Mythology
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The Melody Ascends Stepwise

by Ben Pease February 15, 2010 Poetry and Poetics

A missing Pleiades in the viewable cluster of stars cannot deny us motion though we cannot master its name: there is something you are not telling me standing at the standing stone detained neither by chicken wire nor the upright megalith we imagine pulsing and in so thinking feel the earth beneath us breathe: looking [...]

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