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Category: How Poems Work

How Poems Work: Ken Babstock on David O’Meara
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How Poems Work: Ken Babstock on David O’Meara

  • Posted on April 23, 2013September 9, 2013
  • by admin

Field-Crossing by DAVID O’MEARA The clover’s razed; the ground is autumn-hard. The land bristles in a ragged frame. I’m on the far end, watching weightless clouds hastened by wind, the…

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Ken Babstock on Les Murray
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Ken Babstock on Les Murray

  • Posted on April 17, 2013June 6, 2013
  • by admin

PIGS by Les Murray Us all on sore cement was we. Not warmed then with glares. Not glutting mush under that pole the lightning’s tied to. No farrow-shit in milk…

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The Poneme: The Godlike Thought
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The Poneme: The Godlike Thought

  • Posted on April 17, 2013September 9, 2013
  • by Elisa

When on occasion I teach poetry, one of the main things I try to instill in my students is, to quote Spicer, “Poet, be like God.” To go from trying…

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Will Vallières on Rae Armantrout
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Will Vallières on Rae Armantrout

  • Posted on February 15, 2013September 8, 2013
  • by Wanda

Custom We maintain a critical distance from the sad spaniel gentlemen in cravats on the plaid duvet at the Custom Hotel, Los Angeles. We are so over it. We fly…

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Chris Hutchinson on Gabe Foreman
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Chris Hutchinson on Gabe Foreman

  • Posted on February 14, 2013September 8, 2013
  • by Wanda

Kleptomaniacs As long as you keep an open mind about the thing you seek, it’s always in the first place you look. Gabe Foreman, A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types…

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The Poneme: Elliptical Machines

  • Posted on November 23, 2012February 14, 2013
  • by Elisa

Darcie Dennigan runs a reading series in Providence, and a couple of years ago I bumped into my old friend Leeore on the street outside the bar that hosts the…

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Wanda O’Connor on Robin Blaser
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Wanda O’Connor on Robin Blaser

  • Posted on November 23, 2012February 14, 2013
  • by Wanda

The City wept by a pool midway,     the lover’s conversation claimed itself     like the old head of the wandering Jew painted on leather,     the head follows the voice,     a fluid that is a body…

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Catherine Owen on Muriel Ruykeyser
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Catherine Owen on Muriel Ruykeyser

  • Posted on November 23, 2012February 14, 2013
  • by Wanda

Boy with His Hair Cut Short Sunday shuts down on this twentieth-century evening. The L passes. Twilight and bulb define the brown room, the overstuffed plum sofa, the boy, and…

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Laura Broadbent reads Erin Moure
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Laura Broadbent reads Erin Moure

  • Posted on September 21, 2012February 14, 2019
  • by Laura

  Document 29 (French thinking)  from O Cidadan     To enable a language (returning) is also to allow intrusions, and to enable intrusions or their possibility as part of…

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Adam Sol: Unveiling Human Feeling in Karen Solie’s “Untitled”
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Adam Sol: Unveiling Human Feeling in Karen Solie’s “Untitled”

  • Posted on September 21, 2012November 23, 2012
  • by admin

Untitled You’re still young. Someone curled an arm around you as you slept, and upon awaking gently touched your face. The first sound you heard today was a bird, a…

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Jacob McArthur Mooney Introduces Mathew Henderson, the Tank

  • Posted on April 24, 2011November 15, 2012
  • by Sina

The Tank Squats three days at a time in white brown mud that sticks and sucks like a mouth against everything it touches. The long battle, the bit by bit…

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Michael Nardone: On Colin Fulton

  • Posted on April 14, 2011June 6, 2013
  • by admin

—- What are the phonemes within phenomena? What is their speak and how are they sounded? How does a phrase issue outward from event? What is the name of the…

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