“This Was the First Day / Of the New Experience”: Notes Towards a Pragmatist Reading of Ashbery’s Poetry and Poetics, Part I

By Andrew Field

I want to start with a problem: an overwhelming, close to paralyzing sense that an essay about John Ashbery’s poetry is like a representational critique of a cubist painting.

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2012

The Poetry Object: Robert Adamson

By Tamryn Bennett

Francis Thompson 1859-1907

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2012

The Poetry Object

By Tamryn Bennett

The Poetry Object encourages young writers and their teachers submit poems and photographs about objects that are special to them.

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2012

mUutations: Auden

by Micah Towery April 17, 2012 Poetry and Poetics

This entry is part of a series, mUutations» Warning: mUutations are arbitrary interpretive readings that change the poems into something they’re not. Proceed at your own risk. See for more info. The conflict between eternity and time is deeply embedded in the consciousness of human persons. I believe it gives rise to most impulses that [...]

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Poem of the Week: Caroline Knox

by Sarah Eggers April 13, 2012 The Other

The Scottish Play The Scottish play the bagpipes with dignity to escort people from here to there. You can read about this in Wee Gillis. An English teacher was teaching himself Finnish: “Every morning my wife and daughters ask me, Have you finished your Finnish?” Well, had he? Finnan Haddie! It’s an appealing idea, costumed [...]

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Poetry Comics! Michael Rae

by Bianca Stone April 12, 2012 Poetry Comics

*** *** *** Michael Rae’s suggested links 1. 2. The . Michael has served as his tattoo guinea pig for a decade. 3. . 4. Contemporary American folk art: . 5. . 6. . 7. . 8. 9. _______________________________________________________________ “People Thoughts” is an ongoing drawing/writing series by Michael Rae that began in 2009 and now [...]

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More Rhetorical Devices

by Joe Weil April 11, 2012 Poetry and Poetics

This entry is part of a series, Rhetorical Devices» , Rhetorical Devices» , Rhetorical Devices» PHOTO by . I’m going to put the next few terms under the larger sweep of synecdoche, a word that is dangerous to delve into since theorists and language experts, in their mania to confine, have proven themselves enemies of [...]

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Writing as Habit

by Carmiel Banasky April 10, 2012 The Other

Cue, Routine, Reward I’d like you, for a moment, to think of writing not as a calling or gift or pipe dream, not even a profession or hobby. Instead, I’d like you to think of writing as a habit. For at least the remainder of this article, the desire to write is not some high-minded, [...]

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Poem of the Week: Frank Montesonti

by Sarah Eggers April 6, 2012 Poems of the Week

Sad Indianapolis I go to the movie theatre to look at the rows of exit lights just to feel like I’m landing in my life. I tried to pull the world back from the explosion; but it is snowing; the sky looks like falling ash. Each morning I stitch together a moment, say, the muted [...]

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mUutations: Matthew Zapruder

by Brooks Lampe April 5, 2012 Poetry and Poetics

Warning: mUutations are arbitrary interpretive readings that change the poems into something they’re not. Proceed at your own risk. See for more info. Here’s Matthew Zapruder’s “To a Predator” I woke up early and saw a fox. It was leaping and dragging its glorious red and white tail behind it across the road. It held [...]

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On Rhetorical Devices and Their Use

by Joe Weil April 4, 2012 Poetry and Poetics

I figured I’d post these. Many poets employ them without ever knowing their names, and that seems to work, but I like knowing the names of things. There’s something thrilling and wise ass to me about going through the world, saying: “Oh look! A Eurasian tree sparrow!” At age six, I fell in love with [...]

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Interview with Kate Durbin on E!

by Lisa A. Flowers April 2, 2012 Reviews

This entry is part of a series, On Kate Durbin» Lisa A. Flowers: One of the things I thought was interesting–and admirably bold–about The Hills was that it wasn’t afraid to, conceivably, bore its readers; wasn’t afraid to not entertain, which is a rather ingenious juxtaposition considering that, of course, the book is about entertainment, [...]

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Poem of the Week: Christopher Salerno

by Colie Hoffman March 30, 2012 The Other

$ I hope you like documentaries / never mind what about. In Newsweek I highlight / “the heads of people” in an article about the postures of different species / probably ours isn’t the only posture containing artifice / I’m letting the day trans- form into symptoms / if you concentrate you can expect / [...]

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Poetry Comics! Jono Tosch, Part 2

by Bianca Stone March 29, 2012 Poetry Comics

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Teaching Poetry: Obedience vs. Conformity

by Joe Weil March 28, 2012 Poetry and Poetics

This entry is part of a series, Conformity and Obedience» When I was ten or so, a large flock of starlings, and assorted brown-headed cowbirds used to come visit a deserted lot near my house every fall. I liked nothing better than to run among them, and listen to the collective soughing swoop of their [...]

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Garbage Picking in Eliot’s Waste Land, Part 2

by Tom Bair March 26, 2012 Poetry and Poetics

I dally. It is one of my strengths. I remember when I was ten years, driving to Boston in a groggy, once-flooded luxury Mitsubishi and telling my father, “Sire, it is summer, the windows are locked in the up position, and the engine’s heat is seeping through the vents.” He responded, “Your mind dallies, Thomas [...]

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Poem of the Week: Micah Towery

by Colie Hoffman March 23, 2012 The Other

An Invitation (Horace’s Ode i.20) Cheap wine, Maecenas! You’ll drink cheap wine from cheap cups, our local Sabine swill. I pitched the Grecian jar myself, and filled it with wine I made. I laid it in my cellar that day when you entered your theater after a long sickness. Yes, Maecenas, the people saw you [...]

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Double Contact: William Carlos Williams

by Joe Weil March 21, 2012 Poetry and Poetics

There are many poets who enjoy disliking William Carlos Williams. He wrote poems that seem distinguished only by their adherence to the tossed off. They make no major claims. They seem jotted off. So why study the man at all? First, it is hard to see Williams because he is everywhere, in all the schools [...]

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Funhouse Mirror as Lite-Up Makeup Mirror: Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment

by Lisa A. Flowers March 19, 2012 Reviews

This entry is part of a series, On Kate Durbin» E! Entertainment By Kate Durbin Insert/Blanc Press, 2012 Full color 40 p. chapbook $12.00 If Hedda Hopper had been reincarnated into a bag lady forced to stuff her own newspaper columns into her clothes for warmth, the wyrd outer hummings of her cycle toward rebirth [...]

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