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Abigail Stone: Wrapped in Newspaper

by Bianca Stone December 27, 2011 Arts & Society

December 22, 2011 Mother was never prepared for Christmas. We would drive around in the old car on Christmas eve looking for a tree. Most of the tree lots would be empty or closed. But finally, beside some gas station, in the dark, a sign would loom, “TREES” and a light would be on. “There’s [...]

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Poetry Comics! Paul K. Tunis

by Bianca Stone December 21, 2011 Poetry Comics

What I love about Paul K. Tunis’s work is how brilliantly he melds traditional comic-book style with the experimental. “Toddlers & Tiaras & Vermin” uses three elements I find very interesting when creating a poetry comic: the poem itself, dialogue, and interpretive image (the latter as it differs slightly from the literal text of the [...]

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Primer on Imagery

by Joe Weil December 19, 2011 Poetry and Poetics

We can simplify imagery by saying it is that aspect of writing which appeals to the five senses; but that would be incorrect without the qualifier “sensual.” If we want to be more expansive, but not make the term entirely meaningless (and definitions that insist imagery is anything evoked by words are meaningless) we can [...]

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Poem of the Week: Paul Legault

by Zachary Pace December 16, 2011 Poems of the Week

River 2 They thought themselves too much Acquainted with their seasonal Removal from the wet industry, Or rather placed beside it, Two picnickers blessed by them And losing the thought carefully Like a scientist in the river sent To be their blind guest As the center keeps forming Only to the situation That knows it [...]

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Poem of the Week: Simone Kearney

by Zachary Pace December 9, 2011 Poems of the Week

A On my entire obscene face there is something I’m trying to achieve. It is colorless. It is self-published. It is inner fatigue. It is so superfluous! It is part of an addiction I hate and depend on. It naturally enters into conversations. It will induce a kind of slow intuition. It will be sloppy [...]

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Poetry Speaks with its Hands

by Joe Weil December 7, 2011 Poetry and Poetics

Certain sections of broca’s area of the brain are involved both in how words are given syntactical order and how gestures, physical movements are interpreted as flow, as arc, as coherent actions. We know that broca lights up like a pin ball machine when shadow puppets are introduced before the eye. My theory of narrative [...]

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Poem of the Week: David McConnell

by Zachary Pace December 2, 2011 Poems of the Week

Pissing What part of life is in the weirdness spreading illimitably around what fits? At face level, as he stood there, glaucous light was caught in the clear plastic shower curtain. This light came from the sun by an obscure but direct path through the airshaft. Look at it! The body of the slender man [...]

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Poem of the Week: Jonathan Galassi

by Zachary Pace December 1, 2011 Poems of the Week

Tinsel Tinsel for M.C. A fool for love, an inner refugee, sees a peacock strutting in the birdhouse high on a branch and fanning the broadest, most articulated fan tail the fool for love has ever seen. “Come fly with me!” the fool calls to the peacock, but the bright bird keeps strutting up and [...]

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Why I can never hate the Susquehanna

by Joe Weil November 22, 2011 Arts & Society

I can never hate the Susquehanna, not if it took my last dollar, not if it made me look like a grade z version of some extra who got lost on his lunch break from a remake of The Grapes of Wrath and ended up standing poised against the wrong unforgiving sky. I spent my [...]

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Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book

by Levi Rubeck November 9, 2011 Reviews
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More capable writers have written about Robert Duncan and the circumstances surrounding The H.D. Book, notably whose review I highly recommend. It’s impossible not to concur with her on every point with regard to this, but I can’t speak to such a deep relationship with Duncan. As such, The H.D. Book, for me, was more [...]

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The actual slaughter of the gods: The Great Gatsby, Goldman Sachs, and Zombies

by Joe Weil November 8, 2011 Society

It is not language that is arbitrary, but power itself that is arbitrary and this is perhaps the reason post-modernist latched onto the arbitrary sign. Power, in order to remain power, must be arbitrary–and this includes slavishly following rules at times in order not to be a slave to whim. The authority of the whimsical [...]

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Poem of the Week: Kevin Shea

by Allison Power November 1, 2011 Poems of the Week

As Far as Height’s Concerned There really should be more sugar maples in the valley below. I don’t know how we know, but we know they’d be perfect as far as height’s concerned. Show me more photographs of eccentric strangers on your camera phone—more earrings, more baggage, more footwear, more than I can carry with [...]

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Announcing Poetry Comics! Sommer Browning & Noah Eli Gordon

by Bianca Stone November 1, 2011 Poetry Comics

The visual has always been an important means of communication, from caveman paintings, to graphic novels, to IKEA instruction manuals. We know it fits in somewhere with poetry, beginning with how poets and artists have always looked lovingly upon one another, and ending somewhere more uncharted. It’s been proposed that the use of illustration with [...]

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Why E-books are not Books (and will probably change publishing)

by Micah Towery October 24, 2011 Society

1. The traditional book was based on a form that needed capital, influence, etc. This meant that gatekeepers were required. Getting through the gates endowed an author with certain benefits: editing, layout, publicity, and—perhaps most important—legitimacy. a. The system inevitably mistakes its own guardians of capital for guardians of true literary value. Certainly these interests [...]

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Poem of the Week: Jonterri Gadson

by Metta Sama October 12, 2011 Poems of the Week

To Women Waiting at the Gynecologist -Anarcha’s Ballad Deep inside this cabin, deeper still into the darkness arising like fumes, like odor of woman, broke, harnessed in a body, by the bodies of men who believe me animal, wild, and numb because my body be black, be able, be stank after childbirth, ruined, cast out [...]

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Poem of the Week: b bearhart

by Metta Sama October 6, 2011 Poems of the Week

He Who Talks With A Fist And The Voyeur How Hippothales hides How he hides behind rice stalks How he is knee deep in rice beds listening _____as bears migrate .How migration is manifold .How it starts to unfold from thigh to ass .How fingers are five migratory birds purposeful _____they move inland _____expand _____one [...]

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