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Poem of the Week: Amanda J. Bradley

April 25, 2014

Poem of the Week: Amanda J. Bradley

By Brian Fanelli

Swallowed Whole Recently, on vacation, I saw a blue heron catch and eat a fish. In its middle, the fish was a good deal larger than the heron’s slender neck. Looking out subway windows, sparks fly, light up graffiti tags in this dark, rat-infested tunnel I am hurtling through. Ideas leap to mind: violence, poverty, […]

Apr
25
2014
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Swallowed Whole Recently, on vacation, I saw a blue heron catch and eat a fish. In its middle, the fish was a good deal larger than the heron’s slender neck. Looking out subway windows, sparks fly, light up graffiti tags in this dark, rat-infested tunnel I am hurtling through. Ideas leap to mind: violence, poverty, […]

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Poem of the Week: Jeff Rath

April 19, 2014

Poem of the Week: Jeff Rath

By Brian Fanelli

On This Side

Apr
19
2014
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On This Side

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Poem of the Week: Christine Gelineau

April 4, 2014

Poem of the Week: Christine Gelineau

By Brian Fanelli

Bliss

Apr
04
2014

Bliss

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Poem of the Week

March 28, 2014

Poem of the Week

By Dawn Leas

Prayer for Topaz, 1942 Dear God, Mom said you are busy and don’t have time to listen to a little 8-year-old Negro girl from North Carolina and her foolishness, like praying for a box of candy. That would be selfish. But if it’s really important she said, then I should take it to you in […]

Mar
28
2014
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Prayer for Topaz, 1942 Dear God, Mom said you are busy and don’t have time to listen to a little 8-year-old Negro girl from North Carolina and her foolishness, like praying for a box of candy. That would be selfish. But if it’s really important she said, then I should take it to you in […]

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Homer to Gluck: First Lines

February 3, 2014

Homer to Gluck: First Lines

By Sarah Foil

Our twitter and tumblr followers shared their favorite first lines of poetry.

Feb
03
2014
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Our twitter and tumblr followers shared their favorite first lines of poetry.

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Poetry Essay #1

June 19, 2013

Poetry Essay #1

By Joe Weil

Does feeling write us? Does the landscape watch us vanish without trying to understand us?

Jun
19
2013
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Does feeling write us? Does the landscape watch us vanish without trying to understand us?

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Why Weirdness Can Be a Good Thing: the Aesthetic Satisfactions of a Compelling Strangeness

February 11, 2013

Why Weirdness Can Be a Good Thing: the Aesthetic Satisfactions of a Compelling Strangeness

By Andrew Field

What is the difference between a poem we call mawkish, or overly sentimental, and a poem that carries the right amount of sentimentality and wit?

Feb
11
2013
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What is the difference between a poem we call mawkish, or overly sentimental, and a poem that carries the right amount of sentimentality and wit?

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The Ironic and the Un-Ironic: the Role of the Hero in Ashbery and Creeley

January 21, 2013

The Ironic and the Un-Ironic: the Role of the Hero in Ashbery and Creeley

By Andrew Field

If Ashbery’s poems are premised, if distantly, on a hope for the future, a hope for new imaginary communities, a hope for a new way of speaking, Creeley’s poem are cynical about the future, isolated from community, and unable to even speak.

Jan
21
2013
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If Ashbery’s poems are premised, if distantly, on a hope for the future, a hope for new imaginary communities, a hope for a new way of speaking, Creeley’s poem are cynical about the future, isolated from community, and unable to even speak.

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Poetry Monk

October 3, 2012

Poetry Monk

By Joe Weil

Sometimes I no longer desire to teach the way I have been teaching–not because I am ungrateful, but because I wish to do a fair day’s work.

Oct
03
2012
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Sometimes I no longer desire to teach the way I have been teaching–not because I am ungrateful, but because I wish to do a fair day’s work.

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All Around Meaning

August 8, 2012

All Around Meaning

By Joe Weil

Idiots wait on both sides of the fence.

Aug
08
2012
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Idiots wait on both sides of the fence.

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mUutations: Matthew Zapruder

April 5, 2012

mUutations: Matthew Zapruder

By Brooks Lampe

I’ve been thinking about what Robert Kelly wrote in the early 60s about each image in a poem having “its field of force, its shadow moving darkly through the poem.”

Apr
05
2012
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I’ve been thinking about what Robert Kelly wrote in the early 60s about each image in a poem having “its field of force, its shadow moving darkly through the poem.”

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Garbage Picking in Eliot’s Waste Land, Part 2

March 26, 2012

Garbage Picking in Eliot’s Waste Land, Part 2

By Tom Bair

More, the poem’s resolution enables professors to flee its fragments without worry.

Mar
26
2012
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More, the poem’s resolution enables professors to flee its fragments without worry.

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Poem of the Week: Micah Towery

March 23, 2012

Poem of the Week: Micah Towery

By Colie Hoffman

[An Invitation (Horace's Ode i.20)]

Mar
23
2012
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[An Invitation (Horace's Ode i.20)]

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Possibility and Grace

February 8, 2012

Possibility and Grace

By Joe Weil

This is a strange story. It is liable to get me laughed at.

Feb
08
2012
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This is a strange story. It is liable to get me laughed at.

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Poetry Comics! Paul K. Tunis

December 21, 2011

Poetry Comics! Paul K. Tunis

By Bianca Stone

What I love about Paul K. Tunis’s work is how brilliantly he melds traditional comic-book style with the experimental.

Dec
21
2011
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What I love about Paul K. Tunis’s work is how brilliantly he melds traditional comic-book style with the experimental.

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Poem of the Week: Kevin Shea

November 10, 2011

Poem of the Week: Kevin Shea

By Allison Power

[As Far as Height’s Concerned]

Nov
10
2011
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[As Far as Height’s Concerned]

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