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Category: How Poems Work

Rob Budde on Ken Belford
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Rob Budde on Ken Belford

  • Posted on November 3, 2017November 3, 2017
  • by Sina

How Poems Work Rob Budde on Ken Belford’s “Slick Reckoning” In the poem there are no forbidden  gaps. What is added & what is replaced fills the lattice spacing of…

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Adam Sol on David B. Goldstein: Laws of Rest
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Adam Sol on David B. Goldstein: Laws of Rest

  • Posted on March 14, 2014October 24, 2014
  • by Genevieve

LAWS OF REST Examine your clothing before going out, for you may be carrying something without knowing it. Do not place a wick into a bowl of oil, for then…

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Christine Miscione on John Berryman: The Dream Songs
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Christine Miscione on John Berryman: The Dream Songs

  • Posted on March 7, 2014October 24, 2014
  • by Nick

DREAM SONG 4 Filling her compact & delicious body with chicken páprika, she glanced at me twice. Fainting with interest, I hungered back and only the fact of her husband…

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J’Lyn Chapman on Wallace Stevens
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J’Lyn Chapman on Wallace Stevens

  • Posted on February 28, 2014October 24, 2014
  • by Nick

WAVING ADIEU, ADIEU, ADIEU That would be waving and that would be crying, Crying and shouting and meaning farewell, Farewell in the eyes and farewell at the centre, Just to…

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Elisa Gabbert on Karen Green’s Bough Down
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Elisa Gabbert on Karen Green’s Bough Down

  • Posted on November 22, 2013February 27, 2014
  • by Elisa

Bough Down, Karen Green. Siglio, 2013. by Elisa Gabbert In comedy, a “callback” is a joke that makes reference to an earlier joke, to “build audience rapport.” In Bough Down, a…

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Jaime Lee Kirtz on Juliana Spahr
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Jaime Lee Kirtz on Juliana Spahr

  • Posted on September 27, 2013November 22, 2013
  • by Wanda

Gentle Now, Don’t Add to Heartache I. We come into the world. We come into the world and there it is. The sun is there. The brown of the river…

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M. K. Sukach on William Stafford
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M. K. Sukach on William Stafford

  • Posted on September 27, 2013September 17, 2017
  • by Wanda

Passing Remark In scenery I like flat country. In life I don’t like much to happen. In personalities I like mild colorless people. And in colors I prefer gray and…

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Yerra Sugarman on Paul Celan
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Yerra Sugarman on Paul Celan

  • Posted on September 27, 2013September 17, 2017
  • by Wanda

Death Fugue Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night we drink and we drink it…

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Sarah Burgoyne on Stacy Doris
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Sarah Burgoyne on Stacy Doris

  • Posted on August 7, 2013September 26, 2013
  • by Wanda

Doris: the muscular work Time’s a free illusion of right’s triumph, of reward, which cordons, Of justice, meaning boundaries; bound. Where law’s unruly or limitless Respect may be owed perhaps,…

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Deborah Poe on Megan Burns

  • Posted on August 4, 2013September 26, 2013
  • by Wanda

to mother as an aid to memory You become a different person than you thought, some intimate animal falling over itself. These bones build a holy sepulcher for blessed days.…

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Elisa Gabbert, The Poneme: Farrah Field’s Dioramas
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Elisa Gabbert, The Poneme: Farrah Field’s Dioramas

  • Posted on August 2, 2013September 26, 2013
  • by Elisa

There are states of heightened awareness in which the smallest stimulus can set you off—when nervous or frightened, when being tickled, during laughing fits. Farrah Field’s poems create worlds this…

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Michael Redhill on W.S. Merwin
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Michael Redhill on W.S. Merwin

  • Posted on July 24, 2013September 26, 2013
  • by admin

GATE BY W.S. MERWIN Once I came back to the leaves just as they were falling into the rattling of magpies and the waving flights through treetops beyond the long…

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