Emily Dickinson

Review: Endi Bogue Hartigan’s “Pool: 5 Choruses”

by Emily Vogel July 3, 2014 The Other

Pool: 5 Choruses By Endi Bogue Hartigan Omnidawn, 2014 ISBN 978-1890650926 It troubles me when readers and writers of poetry insist that “postmodernist” poetry doesn’t make any sense, inherits no concept of consequence, and ultimately leaves all sense of meaning uncertain and equivocated. The fact is that good postmodernist poetry simply succeeds at depicting certain [...]

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“For Lack of Diamond Years”: the macro and micro dimensions of mythic perception

by Robert J Mahoney March 17, 2014 The Other

FOR LACK OF DIAMOND YEARS BY CAROLINE BEASLEY-BAKER ISBN 978-1938349096 NOVEMBER 2013 PELEKINESIS As a literary person who became an art critic, the nexus of visual art and poetry has always been of interest to me. I have known Caroline Beasley-Baker as a painter; now I know her also as a poet. In Beasley-Baker’s visual [...]

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“Death Centos” : Company in the Terror of the Unknown

by Fox Henry Frazier March 1, 2014 The Other

DEATH CENTOS BY DIANA ARTERIAN UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2014 Diana Arterian’s chapbook Death Centos is currently available in a limited edition set ($125) that includes two additional works of art. The first of these is a broadside, designed as a version of the Goose Game, with an inward-spiraling design that depicts a life cycle. The [...]

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My Favorite Dickinson Poem

by Joe Weil February 12, 2014 The Other

This is my favorite Emily Dickinson poem, even though it is not her best. It is the poem for which I have the most affection: 348 I dreaded that first Robin, so, But He is mastered, now, I’m accustomed to Him grown, He hurts a little, though— I thought If I could only live Till [...]

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The Ideal Reader as an Act of Faith

by Joe Weil October 2, 2013 Other Writing and Arts

If asked what my greatest ambition was, I’d admit it was still to write a great poem–not a great poem as per some throng of critics, or high powered literary figures, but great to one talented, intelligent, engaged reader who I trust to never let me down in terms of aesthetic judgment. This reader exists [...]

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“Contemplations” on a Massachusetts Poet: Introduction and Form

by Micah Towery January 2, 2013 Poetry and Poetics

When I was 4 or 5, my grandmother loved to ask me where I was from: “Pittsfield, Massachewits” I’d say. Like a sneeze. She took a special delight in my inability to grasp and order all the necessary phonemes. We moved from Massachusetts before I turned 10, before I really appreciated the important literary contributions [...]

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Poetry Comics! Paul Legault

by Bianca Stone June 5, 2012 Poetry Comics

Resources?: 1.: THE SEXIEST CREATIVE GENIUS IN HUMAN HISTORY 2. : an academically rigourous archive of curated .gifs&such from the 90s. 3. : Julia Panek’s TV-poetry-for-an-internet-age. 4. : a technically limitless archive of free, rare, university-press-and-such .pdfs. 5. : an amazing resource for strange high-res scans of “found” images–with a hub in Southern Brooklyn, run [...]

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On the Bias Against Narrative Poetry

by Joe Weil July 11, 2011 Poetry and Poetics

Many young poets can not accept that telling a story, or relating some sort of narrative arc is conducive to the highest aims of poetry. Of course this is a confusion between story telling and narrative. They are not the same. Narrative is the pulse and rhythm of being. Whitman is an intensely narrative poet, [...]

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More Construction Notes

by migration_test October 14, 2010 Academia

Just a few things to notice about the site redesign. 1. You can now login and comment with your Twitter, Facebook, Open ID, Yahoo, or many other accounts. In the process of this changeover, the old comments have disappeared. Fear not! They are not lost. We’re just in the process of importing them, and barring [...]

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The Inward Soul: Dickinson and St. Theresa of Avila

by Joe Weil October 5, 2010 Aesthetics

There is an inwardness so vast, so total, that it has a true integrity—not the pretentiousness of artistic temper, not the vanity of professional mysticism, not the neurosis of social anxiety disorder, but a forthrightness, an honorable, hourly withdrawal from the world that seems, for lack of a better word—ecstatic. Emily Dickinson’s passes this test [...]

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Poems & Pollen

by Samantha Zighelboim April 11, 2010 Flowers

When they say, “Spring is in the air,” they aren’t kidding. New York City is fully abloom–and it is most certainly in the air. Yes, the tulips and daffodils are afoot in the city! Perfectly coiffed Park Avenue flower arrangements trumpet out enormous lilies at pedestrians. Petunias and pansies galore! Primped poodles in their fluffed [...]

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