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Thoughts on “Mock Orange” and Minimalism

by Micah Towery July 14, 2010 Literary Criticism

I hope you’ve been watching . It’s the perfect-sized portion of poetry and comment to get you thinking, your poetry juices flowing. Mary Karr is also a great reader/interpreter of the various poems. I just watched Episode 5 on Louise Gluck’s poem “Mock Orange.” I don’t often remember my first encounter with a poem or [...]

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“Minor” Poets and Imagery

by Joe Weil July 13, 2010 Literary Criticism

I spoke of ontology before, the significance of being that stems from a poem, but there are minor poems, small triumphs of imagery, of rhythm, or beauty that make us think: “Why am I so concerned with truth or significance? Right now, my lover is asleep, and the venetian blinds are leaving their shadow across [...]

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In Memory of Harvey Pekar

by Joe Weil July 12, 2010 Comics

Harvey Pekar did the introduction to my first Iniquity press/Vendetta chapbook, A Portable Winter, back in 1999. Dave Roskos, perhaps the only true publisher and editor I know in the old sense (one hundred percent care about the underground and off the fringe poets, and zero percent bullshit) asked him to do it, and he [...]

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Poetry Fix Episode 5: Louise Gluck

by Chris Robinson July 9, 2010 Mary Karr

Episode 5 of Poetry Fix! Louise Gluck’s “Mock Orange.”

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Poetry Fix Episode 4: Wallace Stevens

by Chris Robinson July 6, 2010 Mary Karr

Episode 4 now available on YouTube. Wallace Stevens’s poem “.” Related Posts Poetry Fix Episode 3: Pablo Neruda Poetry Fix Episode 1: Robert Hass.June 25, 2010 Poetry Fix Episode 2: ArchilochosJune 28, 2010 TheThe Roger Scruton on Beauty

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Poetry Fix Episode 3: Pablo Neruda

by Chris Robinson July 2, 2010 Mary Karr

Hey friends, Mary Karr and I have started a YouTube video series called Poetry Fix. . Twice a week on Mondays and Fridays we’ll upload a 2-4 minute video where we read a poem and briefly discuss it. We’re trying to pimp poetry for average humans. Any feedback is appreciated. We hope you enjoy. And [...]

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Poetry Fix Episode 9: Seamus Heaney

by Chris Robinson July 1, 2010 Mary Karr

Poetry Fix Episode 9: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging.” Related posts: Poetry Fix Episode 8: Nicanor Parra Poetry Fix Episode 5: Louise Gluck Poetry Fix Episode 7: Robert Frost Poetry Fix Episode 6: Miroslav Holub Poetry Fix Episode 3: Pablo Neruda

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Poetry Fix Episode 8: Nicanor Parra

by Chris Robinson July 1, 2010 Mary Karr

Episode 8 of Poetry Fix now available. Related posts: Poetry Fix Episode 3: Pablo Neruda Poetry Fix Episode 1: Robert Hass. Poetry Fix Episode 5: Louise Gluck Poetry Fix Episode 6: Miroslav Holub Poetry Fix Episode 7: Robert Frost

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Poetry Fix Episode 7: Robert Frost

by Chris Robinson July 1, 2010 Mary Karr
Poetry Fix Episode 6: Miroslav Holub

Episode 7 of Poetry Fix: Robert Frosts’s “Once by the Pacific.” Poetry Fix Episode 8: Nicanor Parra Poetry Fix Episode 6: Miroslav Holub Poetry Fix Episode 9: Seamus Heaney Poetry Fix Episode 5: Louise Gluck tagged as Chrs Robinson, Episode 7, Mary Karr, Once by the Pacific, Poetry Fix, Robert Frost, YouTube

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Poetry Fix Episode 6: Miroslav Holub

by Chris Robinson July 1, 2010 Mary Karr
Poetry Fix Episode 7: Robert Frost

of Poetry Fix. Miroslav Holub’s “Ode to Joy.” Poetry Fix Episode 7: Robert Frost Poetry Fix Episode 5: Louise Gluck Poetry Fix Episode 4: Wallace Stevens Celebrating Sylvia tagged as Chris Robinson, Episode 6, Mary Karr, Miroslav Holub, Ode to Joy, YouTube

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More about McLuhan and the Poetic Line

by Micah Towery July 1, 2010 Literary Criticism

In a recent post, I based a discussion about the relationship between the poetic line and print culture on some of Marshall McLuhan’s ideas. I was recently listening to the below lecture by McLuhan and he discussed the effects of the phonetic alphabet. He said that the phonetic alphabet divorced the visual sense from the [...]

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In the Kingdom of Unmatched Shoes

by Joe Weil July 1, 2010 Michael Benedikt

I don’t feel bad when poets are forgotten. We are highly forgettable beings. Very often, the children of poets try to forget them and fail. Poets can be pains in the ass. I once dreamed that poets became discarded shoes without a match when they died—the kind of shoes you often encounter while walking down [...]

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Poetry Fix Episode 2: Archilochos

by Poetry Blog Editors June 28, 2010 Mary Karr

Related Posts Poetry Fix Episode 1: Robert Hass.June 25, 2010

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The Future of Poetry at the Research University

by Micah Towery June 27, 2010 Academia

Wendell Berry , and it got me thinking. While I know this news story isn’t directly related to the topic of poetry (and this is–loosely–a poetry blog), I can’t help but feel it connects on some other level as we (poets) think about the relationship of our poetry to the world around us. Most of [...]

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Poetry Fix Episode 1: Robert Hass.

by Micah Towery June 25, 2010 Mary Karr

My good friend, , has started a YouTube series with Mary Karr called “Poetry Fix.”

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Print and Rhyme

by Micah Towery June 24, 2010 Literary Criticism

I’ve been reading a lot of Marshall McLuhan in the last several months. I know he’s not the most fashionable critic anymore, but I admire his attitude toward culture. I’ve heard some call him a “futurist” but this seems to run directly counter to McLuhan as I read him. If anything, McLuhan is a medievalist [...]

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